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Northern Ireland: Statements (9 Feb 2010)

Martin Mansergh: ...appalled at the notion that anyone was asking them to decommission their weapons. Now all groups on ceasefire have done so, including the UVF, the UDA - all branches of, the INLA and the Official IRA, and this has been paralleled by extensive demilitarisation by the British Army. Great credit is due to General de Chastelain, who has probably had one of the most extraordinary military...

National Library and Archives of Ireland. (21 Oct 2009)

Martin Mansergh: ...them is also important. Brilliant work is being done by historians on the basis of the archives, and new archives are becoming available all the time, such as the Bureau of Military History and the IRA military pension files, which will be available by 2016. For the sake of the economic, social and cultural history of the country, I would dearly like the Land Commission records to be...

Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Committee Stage. (29 Apr 2008)

Martin Mansergh: ...wing albeit, thankfully, no longer active. It tries to present itself as the champion of Irish neutrality. If any movement has been more guilty of violating Irish neutrality in the last war, the IRA only declared its war to have ceased two years ago. In some ways I welcome Sinn Féin's conversion at last to the policy of neutrality but I think it has to internalise it quite a bit...

Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (EirGrid) Bill 2008: Second Stage (24 Apr 2008)

Martin Mansergh: ...The economics at that time never quite came together. As the Minister referred to in his speech, there was also the dimension of the North-South interconnector, which was disrupted and destroyed by IRA bombs. How that was supposed to contribute to the unity of the country is about as puzzling as putting devices on the Dundalk-Newry railway line, which still happens occasionally. As...

Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Apr 2008)

Martin Mansergh: ...in a little semi-statelet"? The following morning on radio, when I was debating with him, he declined to say that the Government of the Republic was not the army council of the Provisional IRA. This is talk of neutrality from a party whose comrades only declared their war with Britain over in 2005. It is a pity this was not thought about for 30 years when hundreds of millions of...

Control of Exports Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Oct 2007)

Martin Mansergh: ...Only Dáil Éireann has the right to declare war, therefore, there was no war over the past 30 years. It is all very well to moralise about other people exporting arms, but are we certain that the IRA did not export expertise in bomb-making and other guerrilla warfare-terrorist tactics and techniques? Many questions are unanswered about places such as Colombia where three members of, let...

Confidence in Taoiseach: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Martin Mansergh: ...important financial transactions in December 1994 not referred to in the tribunal in which the then Minister for Finance was involved and which have been of lasting public benefit. Following the IRA ceasefire, the then Minister for Finance, Deputy Bertie Ahern, did all the groundwork leading up to the decision made by the European Council at Essen on 9 and 10 December 1994 to establish...

Confidence in Taoiseach: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Martin Mansergh: ..., with a minimum of public grandstanding, tries to build a consensus behind what needs to be done. I wish to refer now to the historic achievement of the peace process. The Taoiseach restored the IRA ceasefire, negotiated the Good Friday Agreement — which is not only a political settlement but also a peace settlement — and oversaw its implementation. The Agreement is at last working...

Seanad: Garda Reform: Statements (13 Dec 2006)

Martin Mansergh: ...with the INLA which moved towards a ceasefire. It had already decided to declare a ceasefire before the Omagh bombing. I had a meeting, which is on the record, with the political front of the Real IRA, the 32-County Sovereignty Committee, in early July, urging it to declare a ceasefire. It gave me a document of historical-cum-legal-cum-ideological arguments which was passed to the...

Seanad: Prisons Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2006)

Martin Mansergh: ..., at least agreed a ceasefire in the broad political sense in 1998, and in the political sense of that term has, broadly speaking, observed it. Unfortunately that is not the case for the Real IRA, which declared a ceasefire after the catastrophe of the Omagh bombing but, foolishly from many points of view, broke it approximately a year later. There is also the Continuity IRA, which likes...

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 May 2006)

Martin Mansergh: ...Molyneaux, that the Hume-Adams initiative was worth supporting. He, along with the Reverend Roy McGee, also played a very important role in bringing about the loyalist ceasefires which followed the IRA ceasefire. As Senator Maurice Hayes noted, we still witness appalling manifestations of sectarianism, an evil which is only slightly less heinous than paramilitary conflict. A considerable...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: The IRA——

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: ETA began before the IRA.

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Statements. (2 Feb 2006)

Martin Mansergh: ...to distinguish the wood from the trees, even though I am not sure we are always good at doing so. While there were bad setbacks last year, there was also enormous progress with the ending of IRA activities and the complete decommissioning of arms. If it had happened earlier, it is difficult to see how the devolved institutions would not be running. I am quite depressed sometimes by the...

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Statements. (6 Oct 2005)

Martin Mansergh: ...of the progress made and of his unique contribution to it. He has brought to fruition the aspirations and efforts of every Government since the foundation of the State. We no longer have an active IRA or paramilitary weapons in our midst. It was a great honour to work for a head of Government with such decent and humane instincts, who was never concerned about striking poses or earning...

Seanad: Garda Investigations: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Martin Mansergh: ...the law into their own hands and to harm and injure other people. We should not have to tolerate this in any part of this country. I accept the point that these were not operations authorised by the IRA army council or any unit. They happen because individuals associated with that organisation got involved. What has happened both before and after is not a pretty sight. The peace process...

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Sep 2005)

Martin Mansergh: During the summer recess the Taoiseach and the Government have achieved what all Governments since the foundation of the State have been working towards, the declared final, formal cessation of all IRA activity, an exclusive commitment to democracy and the decommissioning of the entire weaponry of that organisation. It should be noted that the Taoiseach did not spend all his time pointing out...

Seanad: Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion. (16 Jun 2005)

Martin Mansergh: ...pity that, virtually without a scintilla of public support, dissident organisations still attempt to carry out acts of terrorism from time to time. The ideology of the people concerned — the Real IRA and an associated body, the 32 County Sovereignty Committee— is riddled with fallacies which have been pointed out publicly. History is moving away from such people who are on the wrong...

Seanad: Expressions of Sympathy on the Death of His Holiness, Pope John Paul II: Motion. (12 Apr 2005)

Martin Mansergh: ...from Poland where it was very difficult to find any effective way to struggle against the evils of communist oppression. He knew that violence was not an option. He made a very strong appeal to the IRA to stop its campaign. He did not, as has been stated by some well-known republican columnists, side with the oppressor. I find that an appalling remark. He spoke about the importance of...

Seanad: Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion. (24 Mar 2005)

Martin Mansergh: ...because it was vital to the safety of the people of this State and of Northern Ireland. At the Sinn Féin meeting I attended recently, I was asked what was the point of this inquiry given that the IRA had declared and accepted responsibility for the attack and consequently, there was no mystery as to who, in general terms, had carried it out. I replied that the issue was not who was...