Sinn Fein has called on the British government to appoint a new parades commission. It claimed there was an "overwhelming preponderance of people with connections to the RUC and unionist community" in the present commission, so it was "fatally flawed" for nationalists.
Sinn Fein said the Stormont Assembly should eventually have a role in monitoring the commission's work. However, it did not believe there would be sufficient agreement in the chamber to allow this to happen at present.
The views were expressed in Sinn Fein's submission to the review of the Parades Commission. "The membership of the new commission should be broadly based and should include some people who are drawn from working-class nationalist areas and who are sympathetic to republican politics," it said.
It claimed the commission had failed to resolve the parades issue, and its decisions had been "inconsistent and arbitrary" and influenced by the political considerations of the British government.
"It is clear that the current Parades Commission now sees its primary objective as being to re-establish the right of the loyal orders to parade throughout the entire six counties with or without the consent of host nationalist communities," Sinn Fein said.