Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy. I had a chance to meet briefly with Prime Minister Sunak in Iceland last week and we discussed this matter. We will meet again next week at the European Political Community summit in Chișinău. We will be working together to do all that we can to ensure the assembly, the Executive and the institutions of the Good Friday Agreement get up and running again. The Deputy knows as well as I do that the rules allow the two major parties, Sinn Féin and the DUP, to block that from happening. The DUP is currently the ones blocking it, but we will work with together with the UK Government to do all we can to get the Executive up and running as soon as possible. I firmly agree that the message from the people of Northern Ireland is clear. They want the Executive up and running. They want the enormous problems they face on a day-to-day basis dealt with by their politicians.

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