Mr. Gerry Adams:

In all modesty, I am just making the point that there is a responsibility in this Government. I am responding to the Deputy's point and saying that she is right about the shared island, and that is a good initiative. However, what else has been done and what else could be done?

I will turn briefly to acts of reconciliation. I do not want to get into this too much because some of these issues affect folks who might not like to have their particular experience rehearsed here. I have met many victims of the IRA, many of them. I met a family whose brother had been killed. It is not clear to this day whether he had been killed by the IRA, but he had been killed and the family certainly had a sense that might have been the case. They had spent a lot of time trying to meet republicans and trying to get somebody to talk to. Eventually it came to my attention and I met with them. I met them again subsequently. They told me about him and the incident in which he was killed. At the end when I responded and they went to leave, they said that was the beginning of the rest of their lives because somebody had listened to them. Somebody who was seen to be a person of influence sat down and just quietly listened to their story and responded. They said that they went home euphoric. I met them here. They went home to Belfast euphoric. There is a small, very tiny proof of the notion of dialogue. I just offer it as an example of acknowledgement and recognition.