Mr. Gerry Adams:

Thank-you, Violet-Anne. The main thing Sinn Féin has been engaged in, in terms of trying to understand, is based on the concept I dealt with in my opening remarks, which is that dialogue is the only way to go forward. It is a question of dialogue and proactive listening. For the last 40 years, perhaps, Sinn Féin has been engaged in dialogue with sections of Northern Protestant unionist loyalist opinion and that continues to this day. There is an ongoing process where all of our elected representatives in the North, the Border counties and other parts of this State engage actively with and seek the views of those who are from that section of our community. There is also a need to tackle sectarianism. We have developed an inclusion and reconciliation discussion document which the Ard-Fheis adopted as a policy. We are engaged in outreach to try to understand and explain how this can be achieved. It is a matter of dialogue, dialogue, dialogue, Violet-Anne.