European Parliament
Ahern (Verts/ALE ).
– Mr President, I would like to remind the House that elections should have taken place very recently in Northern Ireland and regrettably, unlike in Scotland and the Welsh Assembly, those elections did not go ahead. I would like this House to urge the participants to please come together and hold those elections as soon as feasible. Nature abhors a vacuum and while, hopefully, we will not go back to condemning killings and burying the dead on the island of Ireland, undoubtedly street events will occur with increasing frequency if we do not hold elections. We are all agreed that the way forward is through the democratic process. I hope we can see those elections held very soon.

