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Northern Ireland

Asked whether the Prime Minister would be meeting Ian Paisley this week, and what way might any meeting go, the PMOS replied that we had to see what the parties’ assessment was after the dust had settled on the election result. What nobody had seriously questioned was that the message of the election was that the people of Northern Ireland wanted their politicians to get on with it, and deal with domestic issues such as water rates, health, education and domestic rates. The expectation of the people was that they would do so by 26th March. What we waited to see was the response of Dr. Paisley and others, but Dr. Paisley had said today that he was making "good progress" in terms of moving towards devolution, and that was encouraging.

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