Results 17,081-17,100 of 18,851 for speaker:Fergus O'Dowd
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: The point I was going to make is that these were human beings who were buried. Somebody has to know. You could never forget that. That is my personal view. I am just saying that as an honest point. That is really the difference. The difference is that I think that is never acceptable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: There is interference somewhere.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: It is not Carmel, it is Claire. It is Ms Claire Hanna. I am sorry. I did not introduce her.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: I am sorry Ms Hanna. I think Mr. Adams wanted to say something. I am trying to be fair to everybody.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: They are important points.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: We do
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: We will resume and I will clarify two things. I understand the witness has to leave around 4 p.m. or whatever time suits him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: We have three speakers. I said I would take Deputy Wynne next, then on the rotation it will be Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. We all have a history. We all have a past. In my family, my mother’s name was Devins and she had a relation called James Devins who was a Deputy and was killed in the Civil War fighting on the republican side. On the other side, my mother's brother was...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: Of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: I could not agree more. The more discussion and debate on TV and in newspapers, the better. We must look to the future, learn from the past and not repeat past failures and mistakes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: I think they just kept the Treaty ports at that time. Is that not right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: On that subject, we have been up in the North. We have met Sinn Féin. We have met the DUP. We have met all of the parties. We have been to Derry. We have been to mid-Ulster. We are going up to Newry soon. We are actively doing it, as is this committee. We have been to Belfast and we are going to Derry in January. We have been to mid-Ulster. We are very actively engaged all of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: We have two speakers left. Members of Sinn Féin may want to come in as well. I will take Deputy James Lawless if that is okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: I am conscious of the time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: If that is okay. After the next speaker, we will go back to Sinn Féin and that will be it if Deputy Lawless is happy with that. I am conscious that it is 4 o'clock now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: Hopefully.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: I thank Mr. Adams on behalf of the committee for his time and I appreciate it was a very important debate for all of us. We recognise by having these meetings the importance of finding a way forward for everybody. On the point of history it was in 1965 that the then Taoiseach, Deputy Seán Lemass, met the then Northern Ireland Prime Minister, Captain Terence O'Neill, in Dublin so in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: I know that, but I think it is important to say that. The weakness is that not enough of them were set up and there was insufficient engagement. I thank everyone.