Emer Currie (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I want nothing more than reconciliation on our island, orange and green, but also between different shades of green. When I read Mr. Adams's submission, I found aspects of it to be an outstanding work of revisionism and not reconciliation. To describe the actions of the IRA between 1972 and 1988 as some sort of parallel route to peace and justice is wild. In the document, the he says that it is all about democracy and that the people should decide. Whatever his document seems to suggest, the people of Ireland, year after year, time after time, in those years, rejected the IRA. It is important to say that this is his version of history but, for others, it is not. In my view, it is not a true reflection of our history. Mr. Adams has spoken about legacy and we are very much against the British government's proposals on legacy. I assume from what he said that he believes that when it comes to the British state and the wrongdoings of the security agencies that there are serious questions to be asked of the senior people in the British state and the security agencies. Does he agree that those people need to be held to account?