Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)

I welcome the Taoiseach's commitment to meet the Quinn family and the meeting between the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Dermot Ahern, and the family. I also welcome the firm statement of my colleague, Deputy Ó Caoláin, and have no doubt he believes what he says. One must meet the Quinn family in their own home, as I did, to realise the difficult position in which they find themselves. It is important the Taoiseach meets the family to clear up the statement he made in the House some time ago. Does he believe this murder could have taken place without a degree of organisation? Could so many people have come together to organise and brutally murder Paul Quinn without the involvement of an organisation?

I am vice chairman of the British-Irish Interparliamentary Body, of which the Minister for Foreign Affairs was once co-chairman. Has the Taoiseach had any consultation with either of the Unionist parties about sending members to meetings of the body which is the basis for the east-west link of the Good Friday Agreement?

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