Mr. Mickey Brady:

I will be brief because I know Mr. Adams has to leave. I thank him for his presentation. In his submission he said that peace is not simply about ending conflict it is about addressing the cause of conflict. Mr. Adams has been accused of revisionism today and in my view there are parties around this table who have been guilty of revisionism about addressing the core issues of the conflict. I was in Dublin in 1966 for the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising. There was a lot of rhetoric from Southern Government Ministers about what was happening and what would happen. Unfortunately the people of the Six Counties continue to be abandoned by successive Southern Governments and that is a fact. The other thing I want to ask, for my generation and for other generations, the aspiration or the concept of a new Ireland is no longer an aspiration, it is a project now. While these other parties have talked about how we all agree there should be a referendum but now is not the time, none of us have told them when the time will be. We have only been waiting I think 102 years now, so I will leave it at that. Go raibh míle maith agat.