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"en.20080901.16.1-035"2
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"Mr President, the EU often shows interest, with good intention, in my constituency of Northern Ireland. However, I wish to warn it against funding a project of immense divisive potential. I refer to the foolish embracing by the EU task force, at the behest of the DUP and Sinn Fein leaders of the Northern Ireland Executive, of possible support for a so-called ‘conflict transformation centre’ at the site of the former Maze prison.
However it is dressed up and whatever spin is deployed, the preservation of the H-block section, including the hospital wing, would become a shrine to the terrorists who committed suicide in the Maze in the 1980s. That would be obnoxious to the vast majority of people, and is something that Unionists, whom I represent, would not accept.
I would therefore caution the Commission against meddling with such an explosive issue and against being used by those anxious to hide behind the EU to deliver something which will severely set back relations in Northern Ireland."@en1
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