Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Sometimes the Minister, Deputy Noonan, has the potential to make me laugh. The analogy he drew to Sinn Féin's negotiations in the Good Friday Agreement was one of those moments. However, unlike the Minister, we went into those talks with a view to trying to bring us closer to a united Ireland. As the Minister knows, we were successful, despite the fact that the Irish Government at the time, under Fianna Fáil, would not ask the British Government even to give up its claim on the North. We were successful in achieving that. Instead of betraying our principles about the validity of a united Ireland-----

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