I refer the Deputy to my earlier response to Question No. 6.
I agree with the Deputy in utterly deploring these barbaric practices. The Government has repeatedly put on record its total condemnation of them, and this has been made abundantly clear in the contacts we have had with Sinn Féin and the loyalist parties.
I again avail of this opportunity to call for every effort on the part of everyone with influence on the situation, and particularly these parties, to ensure that everything possible is done to put an end to these inhuman attacks.
If the future of Northern Ireland is to be, as we all wish, an inclusive, peaceful and law abiding society that protects and values all its citizens equally, this atrocious form of behaviour must cease.