Dr. Peter Rigney:

We have members in Northern Ireland of all political opinions. We tend not to take stands on the constitutional position in Northern Ireland. The constitutional position in Northern Ireland is laid down in the Belfast Agreement or the Good Friday Agreement, whatever we wish to call it. Sin an scéal – that is it.

I will advert to one point on the movement of people. From 1940 to 1952 no one from any part of Ireland could enter any part of Great Britain without an identity card. People did not fly in those days. On the routes from Rosslare to Fishguard, Dún Laoghaire to Holyhead and Larne to Stranraer, there was a man on each side – they were all men – and people had to produce a little card with a photograph on it. The point is that this is not without precedent.