Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Long awaited comes at last, and this has certainly been the case with the executive in the North. We all extend our congratulations and our best wishes to the success of that executive. It comes as one of the key factors of the Good Friday Agreement in the hope that it offered of a co-operative Government that would work together for the benefit of everyone and to build a society that would recognise it had a bright and new future. This is certainly what we all want to see come from that.

Of course, the work ahead is difficult and arduous. We know this. Last Friday evening, I chaired the Sinn Féin comhairle ceantair in Fermanagh. We do not usually leak from Sinn Féin meetings but I will share a little bit of it anyway-----

See this speech in context