Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Tánaiste today expressed his admiration for David Cameron's "determination to get to the truth" about Pat Finucane. I remind the House that the de Silva report was about stopping the Finucane family from getting the truth. The members of the family made that plain today. This Government's cynical attitude towards the promises it made and towards its own electorate - if we forget about the Sinn Féin or Fianna Fáil electorates for a moment - was best summed up and illustrated by the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, on Sunday night. When he was pressed about all the promises his party made during last year's election campaign, he simply asked "isn't that what you tend to do during an election?". The Government should go for all these reasons. In addition, it is simply not competent. Its incompetence on many levels should not be under-estimated. I ask the Deputies opposite to do the patriotic thing.

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