SINN Féin deputy leader Michelle O’Neill has written to the Irish and British governments urging them to covene an "urgent" meeting of Stormont's party leaders to discuss legacy issues.
The deputy first minister has written to Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney and Secretary of State Brandon Lewis, saying there had been "little progress on commitments from the governments to a process of intense engagement".
In June, the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) announced "short and focused" multi-party talks aimed at dealing with legacy.
The announcement came less than a fortnight before the British government confirmed plans to introduce a statute of limitations for Troubles offences up to 1998.
Ms O'Neill said yesterday that the roundtable meeting should discuss "whether there is any value in continuing with the so-called multi-party talks on legacy trumpeted by the two governments in a joint communique on June 2".
She said that to date there had been "no meaningful engagement on the issues".
“There has been an absence of papers, no notes taken of meetings and three months on since the governments’ pledge of a process of intense engagement, no working groups have been established,” the Mid-Ulster MLA said.
She also voiced concern at a lack of independent international input into the legacy process.
“I have yet to get any satisfactory response about why this has not progressed or about the British government’s intentions,” she said.
“The British government has delayed implementation of the Stormont House Agreement for seven years."
The Sinn Féin northern leader said it was difficult not to conclude that the British government was "running down the clock until it brings forward its discredited amnesty proposals".
"That is unacceptable," she said.
“It is my view that there is an immediate need to convene a party leaders’ roundtable to review the process to date and determine whether there is a process worth continuing.”
