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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 May 2017)

Gerry Adams: ...core of one of the issues that needs to be sorted out in terms of the institutions being put back in place. The Taoiseach has met these families and knows their stories. He has met victims of the IRA and loyalists acting in collusion with British state forces. He knows that the commitments on legacy issues in the Stormont House and Fresh Start agreements are still not in place...

Northern Ireland: Statements (29 Mar 2017)

Gerry Adams: ...was not part of. From 1972, through the back channels to the British Government in 1981, again in 1989, through our efforts in the 1990’s to build a peace process and an alternative to armed actions, to the IRA cessations, and until a few short months ago, Martin was always there. His was a steady hand on the tiller of the negotiations. He was Sinn Féin’s chief...

Personal Explanation by Member (7 Dec 2016)

Gerry Adams: ...try to put in place. Without that commitment, I could never have pursued the meeting they were seeking, which took place later that summer. The brothers were given a statement at that meeting by a former IRA leader. That statement was made available publicly by the Stack family. The statement acknowledged that the IRA was responsible for their father’s death, that it...

Topical Issue Debate: Northern Ireland (14 Jun 2016)

Gerry Adams: ...up the killings at Loughinisland. That is a fact and there can be no dispute about that. Over the years, I have met many families of victims of the conflict. They include victims of the IRA, and British forces and their lethal allies within unionism. Members of my family have been killed and injured. The grief and trauma suffered by everyone is the same. The resolve of all...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Nov 2015)

Gerry Adams: ..., the family of Pat Finucane, the families connected to the Dublin-Monaghan bombings, the families of the Miami Showband and Seamus Ludlow's family, who live in my constituency? Numerous other families have been victims of the IRA and other groups. Does the Taoiseach have proposals to get the British Government to stick to what it committed to in various other agreements, not least...

Northern Ireland: Statements (3 Nov 2015)

Gerry Adams: ...xfa;idí i mbaol. Against this backdrop, political unionism has contrived to create a real crisis following the murders in Belfast of Jock Davison and Kevin McGuigan. This crisis was facilitated when a criminal investigation into Kevin McGuigan's murder morphed into an assessment of the status of the IRA by the PSNI leadership. While the PSNI chief constable may argue that this...

Northern Ireland: Statements (15 Jul 2015)

Gerry Adams: ..., but he does not tell us what he is doing about it. Unlike Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin has a mandate on both parts of the island. We are also consistent. We are not the ones who think the good old IRA was the class of republican from which Fianna Fáil sprung and that they were all good guys and that those of our generation were all bad people. We do not accept this. We are...

Events at Ballymurphy in 1971 and Legacy Issues: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Gerry Adams: ...and tragedies from decades of conflict because for many they are as real today as they were when they first occurred. Almost 4,000 people died and countless others were injured in a war that was vicious and brutal. Fuair tuairim is ceithre mhíle duine bás le linn cogadh a bhí géar uafásach. Over the years I have met many victims, including victims of the IRA. I...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: ...serious and if so many people's lives had not been destroyed by what had occurred, the process of debate and discussion here would be a very educational one. The Fianna Fáil leader spoke about the IRA community, Sinn Féin-IRA, the IRA running Sinn Féin and so on and so forth. It is clear that, whatever affinity he may have with victims and survivors, he is using this to...

Allegations Regarding Sexual Abuse by Members of the Provisional Republican Movement: Statements (12 Nov 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...those proposals. Victims and survivors include those who were subject to sexual abuse, threat and exploitation, whether by individuals who were members of the state forces or non-state combatant groups, including the IRA, or any other individuals. Survivors of sexual abuse and rape deserve acknowledgement, support and justice. Perpetrators of abuse need to be subject to the law and...

Allegations Regarding Sexual Abuse by Members of the Provisional Republican Movement: Statements (12 Nov 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...an allegation of rape and sexual abuse. As I have said before, all victims and survivors deserve our support in bringing the abuser to justice. The other elements include an allegation that the IRA investigated the allegation of rape. This has now morphed into accusations of a cover-up by Sinn Féin and from that into a charge that we facilitate sex abusers. I reject these charges:...

Allegations Regarding Sexual Abuse by Members of the Provisional Republican Movement: Statements (12 Nov 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...rightly said that he would not prejudge but in respect of these cases he has made a judgment and made up his mind. There has been miles of column inches and acres of outrage about how the IRA dealt with offenders in the community in the North. As I have said before, this was well known. There has been tonnes of media commentary, programmes and, indeed, campaigns against those actions....

Allegations Regarding Sexual Abuse by Members of the Provisional Republican Movement: Statements (12 Nov 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...fact that the legal system has been discredited on many fronts....The writer goes on to make a different point. In this climate of fear and alienation, many in the nationalist community turned to the IRA to enforce a policing role it was ill-equipped to perform. Others felt unable to seek support or justice from any channel. IRA volunteers were ordinary men and women. They had no...

Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...already been on record as welcoming a debate on abuse of any kind. However, I must take exception once again to Deputy Micheál Martin when he talks about allegations of abuse within Sinn Féin-IRA. It is welcome that-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...know this having seen the human cost of abuse right across society. I have set out the circumstances in the North when there was no democratic civic policing service. I have acknowledged that the IRA sought to deal with some cases of abuse when asked to do so by families and victims. While IRA volunteers were acting, in my opinion, in good faith, the IRA was ill-equipped to deal with...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...to alert them and did the same privately with the Taoiseach. I told them we have a problem here and no one is trying to sort it out. We saw, through all the media coverage around the twentieth anniversary of the IRA sos, and the very poignant events around the death of Albert Reynolds, how much progress has been made and how much we as a people and others value that progress. This is a...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (17 Sep 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...fosta faoi fear eile, Ian Paisley, a fuair bás an tseachtain seo caite. Táimid ag smaoineamh faoina theaghlach fosta. It is poignant that Albert Reynolds's funeral took place just days before the 20th anniversary of the ground-breaking IRA cessation. That decision by the IRA leadership resulted in enormous changes and had profound effects on politics in Ireland and the...

Order of Business (25 Jun 2014)

Gerry Adams: It is a matter of public record that the IRA unit responsible for the bombing at Guilford made a full public statement in 1975. Its members also testified in the British courts that they, not Gerry Conlon, were responsible for the bombing. The Taoiseach is very badly informed.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 May 2014)

Gerry Adams: .... In the same way as there are the Fine Gael, Labour Party and Fianna Fáil narratives, in more recent times there are the Sinn Féin and the republican narratives, as well as Unionist, British Army and IRA narratives. We would get some sense of our history were we willing to lay all those narratives side by side as opposed to undermining any of them. Moreover, for the record,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 May 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...how serious and genuine they may be, about what is happening in the North and the suffering of victims' families. Of course, the suffering of all of the victims is the same. The family of an IRA volunteer, of a British soldier, of an RUC officer, of a UDR officer and, most particularly, of civilian feel the same way and I say that as a member of a family which has buried two family...