Seanad debates

Tuesday, 9 December 2003

Independent Monitoring Commission Bill 2003: Second Stage.

 

We must be realistic. No one can force the republican movement into acts of completion but, and this applied to every stage of decommissioning, the question is if it does not move to conclude, is it prepared to pay the political price? That is the issue. I believe the republican movement is committed to the process and to doing what is necessary to sustain it and the institutions. The republican movement may not come to that easily and I understand some of the internal difficulties involved. It is not an easy task, although it is easy for us to preach glibly. Nonetheless it must carry its strategy to a logical conclusion and there should be no further unreasonable delay in doing so. I accept that it will be done and the plan for doing it will be in the context of putting the institutions of the Good Friday Agreement together again on a durable basis. That is what we all wish to see.

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.