Micheal Martin has agreed to meet DUP leader Arlene Foster about allegations of Irish state collusion with republican terrorist organisations and both the meeting and the outcome will be awaited with keen interest.
Down through the years, there have been many calls for a full public inquiry into Irish state collusion with republican terror gangs.
However, the only inquiry carried out in the Republic has been the Smithwick inquiry, which looked into the IRA murders of RUC officers Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Robert Buchanan.
They were killed by the Provisional IRA near the border in 1989 as they returned from a meeting in Dundalk Garda station.