Mark Durkan
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"Mark Durkan" Member of Parliament/MP is an Irish people/Irish politician in Northern Ireland who was the Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland from 2001 to 2002, and the Social Democratic and Labour Party/Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party from 2001 to 2010.

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On-off engagement with the IICD is no less discouraging than the UUP's on/off commitment to the political institutions.

We want to see a credible report telling us there is no current or ongoing illegal activity from the IRA.

Remember among the people trying hardest to prevent the election of first and deputy first ministers were people who couldn't contain themselves when they were taking ministerial office just a few days ago.

The most edifying exercise.

The Eaga Partnership has done a very, very good job because it doesn't just raise a very important problem, it actually brings forward practical solutions.

What we had this morning was hope. By this afternoon hype, and now this evening it's a debacle.

For us that has to mean the Government has to return to the Good Friday Agreement as the baseline document in any negotiations we have.

There should be no space or excuse for continued criminal behavior of any kind.

That means calling the bluff of all those parties standing in the way of progress and calling time on their delaying tactics. It means ending the destructive politics of side deals and concessions that is holding us back and taking us from the agreement that the people of Ireland voted for.