Pat Moylan (Fianna Fail)

I move:

"That Seanad Éireann:

—commends the Government for its handling of the peace process to date;

—notes the comprehensive proposals published by the two Governments that the parties have been considering;

—urges the Government to continue to secure agreement and closure on what, by any standard, is a hugely impressive, indeed a landmark, package; and

—acknowledges that the comprehensive proposals would bring closure to issues left incomplete and specifically notes, that there is a real prospect of:

—ending paramilitary activity;

—completing the process of IRA arms decommissioning in a rapid timescale;

—securing a basis for the full operation of the institutions of the Agreement, on an inclusive basis;

—improving the accountability and effectiveness of these institutions, while also staying within the fundamentals of the Good Friday Agreement;

—achieving the support of the republican community for the new policing arrangements; and

—getting ahead with the many other important commitments that have been stalled because of the absence of overall agreement."

I welcome the Taoiseach to the House.