Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We should all acknowledge the tremendous organisational feat that the visit of the US President gave to this country and the world at large in highlighting the issues of importance today. It also provided a great opportunity to renew the vigour and forward progress of the original sentiments expressed in the Good Friday Agreement and the need for an urgent reappraisal of everybody's position to move that debate forward in a meaningful way, without offence to anybody.

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