Dáil debates
Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion
12:00 pm
Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
Despite Deputy Boyd Barrett's illusion that it ended because people rose up against violence, it ended because it took those engaged in violence 30 years to discover that violence was not getting them anywhere and they grew weary of it. Ultimately, political arrangements were put in place under the Good Friday Agreement which provided mechanisms to bring the violence to an end.
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