Dáil
‹ Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Government's North of Ireland Policy. Calls for British withdrawal
Summary
Kemmy argues that repeated withdrawal demands are harmful and offensive to Northern unionists; the Taoiseach agrees that calls made without regard to circumstances are simplistic and unhelpful.
Would the Taoiseach agree that repeated calls for British withdrawal from Northern Ireland at this time would be unhelpful and harmful in the present state of relations between this country and Britain and, indeed, that these repeated calls for British withdrawal from Northern Ireland could be offensive to the one million British subjects in the North of Ireland to whom the sign "Brits Out" is offensive because they are British and Northern Irish just as the Welsh are Welsh and British and the Scottish are Scottish and British at the same time?
