Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I do not want a crisis to emerge. My family home is there. I was there yesterday. I spend most Mondays at Stormont trying to work these issues out with our friends in the Unionist section. In his remarks earlier, the Taoiseach acknowledged that the first offer was not accepted. Deputy Martin said this is how negotiations happen and what politicians do. If the Deputy compares the first and final drafts of the Stormont House Agreement, he will see why I made the remark I made. Our focus was not on helping the parties in the North but getting the Irish Government to focus on the British Government and to fulfil its responsibilities in that regard. On a lighter note, we should applaud the emergence of the united popular front against Sinn Féin led by Deputies Micheál Martin, Joe Higgins and Richard Boyd Barrett.

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