Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach mentioned the Narrow Water in his response to my earlier question.

What is the mantra coming from me today? Without appearing to lecture or to preach, it is that the Irish Government is a sovereign government, or what passes for sovereign in these days, facing up to a British Government, and it needs to get it to fulfil all of its obligations. One of the things I have always found about the British, no matter whether one agrees or disagrees with them, is that they act on what they perceive to be their own national interest all of the time. We need to do the same thing. We need to understand the national interest is the entire island, including the Unionists. They are the people with whom we want to make peace. They are one of our great traditions - the orange is one of our great traditions and one of our national colours. I commend that approach to the Taoiseach. I thank him for his positive response to the request to have more formal and regular debates on these matters.

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