Sinn Féin has outlined its priorities for next week's formal review of the Belfast Agreement and has countered claims that the party is funded by IRA activities.
In a detailed document, Agenda the Full Implementation of the Agreement, the party refers to the all-Ireland aspects of the agreement, the human rights and justice agenda, demilitarisation and calls for the concentration on the IRA's arsenal to be widened to include loyalist guns and other illegally-held weapons.
Party president Mr Gerry Adams sees the review as "a house-keeping arrangement" and has called on the British government in particular to regenerate the political process, which has been stalled since the Stormont institutions were suspended in October 2002.
He wants the British government to ensure that anti-agreement unionists in general, and the DUP in particular, do not dictate the political agenda.
Questioned about remarks made by the Minister for Justice, Mr McDowell, Mr Adams denied that the IRA funded Sinn Féin. He insisted that the party "funds ourselves and resources ourselves".
He accused Mr McDowell of "engaging in winks and nods but failing to produce evidence".
Referring to the weapons issue, Mr Adams said all weapons and all "armed groups" had to be included in the debate.
"We think that there has been a single focus on one element of silenced weapons. That is the weapons of the IRA," he said.
"We make the point that there are weapons that have not been silenced in the hands of unionist paramilitaries - many of them put there by British agents.
There is the issue of the weapons in the hands of the state and there is this other issue of licensed weapons," he said.
Unionists and the Alliance party rounded on Sinn Féin.
Mr Nigel Dodds for the DUP said: "Their unrealistic and outlandish demands for the removal of troops, the devolution of policing and justice powers, the politically driven expansion of the all-Ireland dimension, implementation of a one-way human rights and equality agenda, the further erosion of the British ethos and the promotion of the Irish language and culture at the expense of all things British, are utterly unacceptable."
The Ulster Unionists accused Sinn Féin of attempting to rewrite the agreement. Mr Michael McGimpsey said: "The very people who, despite having brought down the executive on three different occasions and who have been urging the governments to protect the agreement are actively trying to rewrite it."
Mr Stephen Farry of the Alliance party said: "Sinn Féin can't, on the one hand, criticise some parties for proposing necessary changes to get the agreement working, and then produce their own wish-list ."