Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Martin raised quite a number of issues. I do not think that there is any major disagreement about anything that he has said. Clearly, in vulnerable communities the issues of inequality, opportunity and education are absolutely critical, no more so than has been demonstrated in so many places around the world.

In the last 12 months, there have been 50 different meetings between myself, the Tánaiste and different Ministers and our counterparts in Northern Ireland about issues arising there. That has been more than ever since the establishment of the North-South Ministerial Council. We have had some success and progress following the signing of the strategic partnership agreement with Prime Minister Cameron last year, which I hope to build on when I have the opportunity to speak to him again in that context early in March.

I have to say that I was astonished. As Deputy Martin well knows, in this House we have no hierarchy of victims. Yet I noticed that, in whatever context, Deputy McDonald's party, Sinn Féin, seems to have a difference of view between a member of the Garda Síochána and a member of the PSNI-----

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