Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland – in the House of Commons am 11:30 am ar 4 Mawrth 2009.
The hon. Gentleman is right to draw the House's attention to the extraordinarily brave work carried out by members of the PSNI. I want to reassure him and other hon. Members that the Chief Constable, myself and others are doing everything that we can to protect the brave men and women of the PSNI. However, what the House can do is send an unequivocal message to the criminals who would threaten the community—that politics is winning, and that paramilitary criminal activity is always destined to fail.