Camillus Glynn (Fianna Fail)

When the peace process was brokered — we commend all those who participated in that — how many people said at the initial stages that it was not possible, that divisions were too deep-seated and that agreement was not possible? Thanks be to God those people were wrong. When Sinn Féin and the DUP, who were at opposing ends of the political spectrum, came together to form a government in Northern Ireland, every right-thinking person on all sides, North and South, heaved a sigh of relief.

What happened in the murder of those three people and the attack on the two innocent people delivering pizzas was reckless. The operative word is "wreck" as that is what those people are trying to do; they are trying to wreck the peace process. It is up to every right-thinking man and woman of all persuasions, irrespective of which part of this island they live on, to do whatever they can in encouraging our security forces, the Garda and the Army on this side and the relevant forces on the other side of the Border.

This act has served nothing. The three people who were murdered were reared by mothers. They were human beings and there is no case whatever to be made for their murder. It was a heinous and dastardly act, and no words of mine could describe how evil those people must be to have conceived such a reckless act of disregard for human life.