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24/01/2006
Paisley to meet with Blair to discuss devolution
Tony Blair is to today hear proposals from DUP leader Ian Paisley, outlining the party's ideas on a return to devolution in Northern Ireland.
Mr Paisley will travel to Downing Street with the 16-page dossier, which is understood to detail how the DUP believe that the Stormont assembly might be revived, without a power-sharing executive.
The meeting follows the controversy over remarks leaked from a Policing Board meeting where Assistant Chief Constable Sam Kinkaid admitted that he IRA was still involved in organised crime.
This caused uproar among the Unionist community as it contradicted Security Minister Shaun Woodward's previous comments saying that the IRA had fully decommissioned.
After three failed bids to re-establish devolution, the IRA made a declaration in July that it was ending its armed campaign and completed its programme of disarmament in September.
However, the DUP and the Ulster Unionists have said that they want proof that the IRA has fully ceased all paramilitary and criminal activity.
Mr Blair is due to arrive in Dublin on Thursday to engage in fresh talks with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.
The publication of an Independent Monitoring Commission report on paramilitary activity is expected at the end of the month.
(EF/SP)
Mr Paisley will travel to Downing Street with the 16-page dossier, which is understood to detail how the DUP believe that the Stormont assembly might be revived, without a power-sharing executive.
The meeting follows the controversy over remarks leaked from a Policing Board meeting where Assistant Chief Constable Sam Kinkaid admitted that he IRA was still involved in organised crime.
This caused uproar among the Unionist community as it contradicted Security Minister Shaun Woodward's previous comments saying that the IRA had fully decommissioned.
After three failed bids to re-establish devolution, the IRA made a declaration in July that it was ending its armed campaign and completed its programme of disarmament in September.
However, the DUP and the Ulster Unionists have said that they want proof that the IRA has fully ceased all paramilitary and criminal activity.
Mr Blair is due to arrive in Dublin on Thursday to engage in fresh talks with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.
The publication of an Independent Monitoring Commission report on paramilitary activity is expected at the end of the month.
(EF/SP)
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