Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)

——a more appropriate logo for Sinn Féin would be Sinn Féin €200 million because that is the amount of money the Provisionals are estimated to have taken out of this country.

We have learnt since the arrest in connection with the Northern Bank robbery the prevalence of the underworld of IRA activities here. There is need for a full investigation by the Criminal Assets Bureau into the criminal activities of the provisional movement. I want to know now the number of public houses and hotels throughout this country that were purchased with moneys from Provisional IRA racketeering, laundered and invested in business here.

There are questions to be answered by everybody regarding this current crisis. There are questions to be answered by the provisional movement — I have touched on some of them — but they do not like them being asked. That is obvious from the recent interruption, and they will not answer those questions they do not choose to answer. That is also clear from this debate because Sinn Féin has not answered any of the hard questions——

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