Mr. John Sheridan:

That is understood, but there is more strength through the Good Friday Agreement committee. There is a responsibility through the committee. Theresa May speaks as if she will be sitting around a table with 27 other member states when Article 50 is triggered. Well, I am sorry, but my understanding of it is she will be either miles away or sitting in another room and whoever is chosen to be a spokesperson will come to and fro to her. There is a huge weight on the Irish Government's shoulders and on the committee's shoulders. Dr. McDonnell mentioned caution. We are called remoaners. To an extent, that is intimidation. Surely to God, 56% of us are entitled to say what we feel. It is a blank sheet. It has not happened before. Why can agriculture and other business not remain under the European domain? I am just speaking for agriculture. Everybody else can speak for themselves to an extent, but I do not see why there cannot be an island of Ireland economically and some political understanding on the rest. That is not necessarily looking for a united Ireland but, by heavens, it is looking for common sense and trade within Europe as it is at the moment. The consequences of reestablishing a hard Border and dividing Ireland once again will make a wasteland of the North, create a vacuum and suck in all sorts of bad issues we never want to see again.

We have had enough.