The two main Opposition parties today attacked Sinn Fein and the IRA over the latest crisis in the Northern Ireland peace process.
Fine Gael has published the text of a motion it intends to debate during in the Dáil next week.
Mr Enda Kenny said yesterday the party would be putting aside its Private Members' Time next week for the motion. The motion reaffirms Fine Gael's support for the Belfast Agreement and notes the progress made since it was signed in 1998.
It notes, however, that all parties to the Agreement "undertook to pursue their political objectives by exclusively peaceful and democratic means" and the party was signed on the basis that the Agreement "envisaged full decommissioning of all paramilitary arms within two years".
It says the Northern Bank robbery and recent comments by the Sinn Féin leadership on criminality have damaged the peace process and caused "deep concern".
The motion says Fine Gael regards the two latest IRA statements as "retrograde" and "an implicit threat" to the Irish people.
It concludes by insisting all criminal and paramilitary activity must end before final, inclusive settlement can be reached and says full decommissioning by the Provisional IRA is essential.
Meanwhile, the Labour Party leader Mr Pat Rabbitte insisted the IRA was the main obstacle facing the peace process. He said republicans, who were integrally involved in drafting the Agreement, now regarded it as "of minor significance".
He accused the IRA of delivering nothing but "delay, prevarication, humbug and self-serving doublespeak" since the deal was inked in 1998.
"On top of all this there has been a not very-thinly-veiled threat from the IRA when, in appears, they felt their first statement was not received with due respect and deference."
Mr Rabbitte said his party remained committed to an inclusive political process in Northern Ireland to the principles of the Agreement.
"Inclusion can never be based on threats and the price that all parties must pay for inclusion in this process is a total and unequivocal commitment to totally peaceful and democratic means," he said. "It is now make your mind up time for Mr Adams, Mr McGuinness and their colleagues in Sinn Féin."