There has been an enormous improvement in the security situation in Northern Ireland in recent years. We will continue to work with the British Government through the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference to encourage the greatest levels of demilitarisation possible. In the context of addressing the current impasse, the question of ensuring real progress on demilitarisation will be an obvious priority. People need to see that demilitarisation is taking place and that the process of normalisation is moving forward.