Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I think that is it, in terms of the assumptions that have to be made. I am looking forward to the macroeconomic model and I do want to commend the ESRI and IBEC on their initiative. That will tell us a lot and give us a lot to work on. There have been many contributions made to this debate and the better data we have, the more we can accurately take the emotion out of it. We all have emotions around Irish unity but there are things to be worked out. I will conclude with the point that it is awfully important, when we are talking about the cost, to also make a legitimate effort to talk about the benefits in all the information we have to hand in order that we do not have crazy headlines without looking underneath. I acknowledge our guests referred to other papers but editors and broadcasters do not look at previous papers that have been written. They will go for the headline figure and I do not think that part of it is helpful. I thank the witnesses for their contribution to the debate on all this and I look forward to other contributions..