Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Going back to Mr. Bruton's paper on the twin-track approach, I want to ask him about the experience of negotiating that and how it was reached. One of the things the committee is trying to do is to look back to the personal experience and learn from it at this remove. His paper refers to the difficulty of finding a way to involve Sinn Féin in political talks, given the existence of a heavily armed group and the threat of that group, and of persuading John Major in that regard. I ask Mr. Bruton to elaborate on his experience of the work that was done on that twin-track approach.