Finian McGrath
Question:172 Mr. F. McGrath asked the Taoiseach the position regarding the Northern Ireland talks. [10444/04]
View answerTuesday, 6 April 2004
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I met Prime Minister Blair in Farmleigh on Thursday, 11 March. We discussed the review and we recognised the importance of injecting momentum into the review process. For that reason, we met in trilateral format with each of the parties in Hillsborough on Tuesday, 23 March.
At those meetings, we explored with the parties how we could achieve fully inclusive, fully functioning, devolved government. There needs to be a clear and definitive end to paramilitarism and there needs to be clarity that unionism will participate fully in an inclusive process if paramilitarism is brought to a definitive end. As I have said, remedying the deficits of trust and confidence that now exist requires a fast-forwarding to completion. If we can achieve this, we can achieve a successful outcome to the review.