North Belfast assembly member Gerry Kelly is accompanying the Sinn Fein leader on the trip.
Both amendments were defeated and the Sinn Fein motion was passed by 84 votes to 45.
The Sinn Fein candidate insists ordinary unionists in Mid Ulster are increasingly using his party's advice centres.
However the Sinn Fein minister Michelle O'Neill announced it would be based in Ballykelly in County Londonderry.
Mr Cowen is understood to have briefed Secretary of State Peter Mandelson after the Sinn Fein meeting.
Barry McElduff moved the Sinn Fein motion calling on Culture Minister Nelson McCausland to establish a language strategy.
So you think the cross-border talks with the Sinn Fein members could resume in a matter of weeks?
The Sinn Fein MP said the final 11-plus tests should be in 2004.
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The Sinn Fein MLA said she would be bringing the issue up with Health Minister Edwin Poots later on Thursday.
When I emerged from the Sinn Fein office at Connolly House I found a rain-sodden piece of paper under my windscreen wiper.
The Sinn Fein leadership told him they thought the suspension was illegal.
DUP's two ministers, Peter Robinson and Nigel Dodds, say they will have no dealings inside the executive with the Sinn Fein pair.
The Sinn Fein MLA called for changes to the Treasury's methods for calculating funds to be allocated to government departments in Northern Ireland.
This was disputed by the Sinn Fein president who said he had not applied and had received an apology from the PM's office.
He was speaking after a meeting in west Belfast with the Sinn Fein leadership who told him their belief that the suspension was illegal.
The Sinn Fein president also said he felt there was a lot of work to be done to "ensure that policing is non-partisan and civic".
Mr Parry said he was not looking for the Sinn Fein leader to make amends for the loss of his son at the London meeting.
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The Sinn Fein leader said his party remained "wedded" to its objective atthe outset of the peace process to remove the gun from Irish politics.
On Tuesday, the Sinn Fein president unveiled a monument in Havana in memory of the 10 republican prison hunger-strikers who died in Northern Ireland in 1981.
Several SDLP councillors were there, but the council was represented by the deputy mayor, the UUP's Mary Hamilton, rather than the Sinn Fein mayor Kevin Campbell.
While his postponement of the elections infuriated Mr Adams, Mr Blair was quite polite about the Sinn Fein leader's efforts to keep the peace process alive.
However, the Sinn Fein leader responded on Thursday by saying the Bill "did not keep pace" with the Patten report, which made 175 recommendations including changing the RUC name.
The Sinn Fein MLA said a number of RUC officers with information about the killing had yet to come forward, including those who "handled" the five agents who were involved.
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When the council campaign got under way, the Sinn Fein candidate Conor Maskey confessed to blasting a football straight into the face of the young son of a potential voter.
The Sinn Fein deputy speaker, Francie Molloy, has gone so far as to indicate that he will not chair debates on matters over which he believes the assembly has no power.
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"An issue with brochures in foreign languages has also been highlighted in the report and again I believe this dates back over a number of years, " the Sinn Fein mayor said.
The Sinn Fein document also said that there were no assurances that the Patten recommendations on plastic bullets, the RUC special branch, community representation and new policing practices would be carried through.
It seems unlikely that the Sinn Fein position would change in this Parliament - were they to take up their seats, they'd probably want to say so to their voters in a manifesto, first.
The McGuinness retort is that other historic Irish figures had a past steeped in physical force republicanism and the Sinn Fein politician's candidacy in the Irish Presidential race is about the present and the future.
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