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

I thank the Tánaiste for his further reply. At this stage, would it be opportune to engage to an even greater extent with the communities on both sides of the debate in Northern Ireland and with the institutions in a helpful, non-aggressive and non-invasive way to assure them that the principles involved in the agreement are still alive and necessary and that we must strive to ensure that a vacuum does not develop wherein speculation replaces a very hard-won agreement that was fought for over a long number of years and to which everybody contributed?

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