The Tánaiste, Ms Mary Harney, today applied further pressure on Republicans to force action from the IRA to advance the Northern Ireland peace process.
Ms Harney declared: "We don't want weasel words, we want clarity."
She added: "We are fed up waiting for Sinn Féin to tell us the war is over and the guns and semtex will be put beyond use."
Ms Harney said the Irish and British governments and the other political parties had been prepared to give Sinn Féin space to move into the democratic political process.
She added: "They have found that there is an electoral home for them there. I don't know why it is they want to continue to have a private army.
Speaking on RTE radio after her Progressive Democrat party's annual conference in Galway, Ms Harney agreed that the development she was seeking meant Sinn Féin abandoning the IRA and all weapons and explosives.
She said the time had come for "no ambiguity whatever. We don't want weasel words, we want a clear statement, we want the truth, we want clarity. We don't want to have to read between the lines.
"I think we should get it, and I hope we do. There are only a couple of days left. Certainly the government will work extremely hard to try and get the answer we want, and no stone will be left unturned."
"I believe the people of this country, north and south, will be very disillusioned and very angry if we don't get the answer we are expecting to get."