Mr. Oliver McVeigh:

Most of the people at this meeting today are republicans. I am a republican as well. I am just not an Irish republican in the true sense of the word because I do not want anybody's blood to be shed. I would have nothing to do with anyone calling themselves republicans if they leave issues unlooked for and unanswered. We can talk all day about this but it all goes back to the same point. I say to Paul Maskey and all these other people in the republican movement and Sinn Féin, at the risk of being crude, that we do not want to talk to the monkeys; we want to talk to the organ grinders, have a meeting with them and see what we can do to go forward. We are all asking what can be done to move forward. The way forward is to raise it at the highest level.