David Norris (Independent)

I defy the Cathaoirleach to show me that in a book. I will continue to state this because I believe in telling the truth. The Reverend Ian Paisley undermined by accusing of treason not only Captain Terence O'Neill for meeting Sean Lemass but also Brian Faulkner, James Chichester Clark and David Trimble. What motivated him was ambition. There was no repentance. At least the provos expressed regret. In my opinion he shamed his cloth by using the language of the Bible to divide and separate people and I am glad he is gone. I hope better will come. I have stated severe things about the provisional movement of the IRA but I believe fair is fair and I, at least, will tell the truth about this day. I am glad that for whatever reason he managed to be an instrument at the end towards some degree of reconciliation but I do not think it was his motive.

Will the Leader consider No. 17, motion 36 on the Order Paper with regard to the M3 motorway and Tara? This is in light of the fact that Dr. Jonathan Foyle, chairman of the World Monuments Fund, described driving the motorway through Tara as being comparable to the destruction of the Buddhas at Bamiyan by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Our national poet, Séamus Heaney, stated the motorway "literally desecrates an area — I mean the word means to "desacralise" and, for centuries, the Tara landscape and the Tara sites have been regarded as part of the sacred ground". Will the Leader organise a debate on this before it is too late?