Ulick Burke (Fine Gael)

I support the calls from this side of the House asking the Taoiseach to immediately rethink his statements of yesterday. It is nothing short of revolting that we can see the Taoiseach saying nothing stands between a final settlement or none at all, apart from the question of the release of these murderers. He has also said that it is part of the package to restore powersharing in the North of Ireland. If we have to acknowledge those statements as the best that this Taoiseach can do for the family of Detective Garda McCabe and the Garda force throughout the land, especially given what it has been doing to protect ordinary citizens as well as themselves from murderers, we have reached a new low. It indicates that the desperation of the Taoiseach to get a settlement for his own ego is more important——