Tom Elliott
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(8 years, 5 months ago)
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Mrs Villiers
Those groups have lethal intent and lethal capability. They have been responsible for 150 national security attacks over the past five years. The threat from those groups is being suppressed by highly effective activity in the PSNI, aided in many instances by the Garda Síochána in cross-border activities.
Tom Elliott (Fermanagh and South Tyrone) (UUP)
How concerned is the Secretary of State that the IRA army council is still in place and that IRA members are still murdering citizens on our streets?
Mrs Villiers
It is entirely unacceptable that any paramilitary organisations continue to exist in Northern Ireland. I believe that the fresh start agreement will mark a turning point and put us on the path to a day when those organisations are consigned once and for all to Northern Ireland’s past and have nothing to do with its present or its future.