Seanad debates
Wednesday, 20 November 2002
Northern Ireland: Statements.
We share the view that now is the time to try to bring finality and certainty. Otherwise the process will be damaged. The prize is great – a completely transformed Northern Ireland with stable, functioning democratic institutions, a system of policing acceptable to all with the participation of all communities, normal security arrangements in communities and an end to paramilitarism. If we succeed in achieving that transformation, and I believe we will, we will then be in a position where all parties will have taken huge steps and huge risks and we will be able to move forward.
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