Martin Mansergh (Fianna Fail)

Today's edition of The Irish News states, "Taxpayers' £11 million bill for RIRA firebombs". The Newry bombings cost another £20 million. As I stated during a debate on other legislation last week, there is a strong security dimension to the issue, but there is also a political dimension and we must find a way of closing down that type of destructive and counterproductive activities and a means of persuasion as well as repression.