Seanad debates

Tuesday, 9 December 2003

Independent Monitoring Commission Bill 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages.

 

I do not agree with Senator White's view that we have given it away or that it has been given away for nothing. I do not believe we have given anything away. If it was wished to submit the claim to international arbitration in The Hague, there was nothing to stop us signing up to that provision and seeing how far that claim would have availed us. We must be realistic. I would prefer to take a positive view of these issues. The ending of the sterile claim to impose the 1937 Constitution without consent has been replaced by something much more challenging, viable, attractive and consistent with what in my view impels Irish republicans, among whom I count myself, to strive for over time. It is not a question of giving something of value away; it is a question of putting something much more valuable in its place. I do not know how I got distracted from discussing the amendment.

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