Professor Colin Harvey:

Let me complicate the answer. We were all involved in the conversation around the bill of rights. It remains important because serious people around these islands, in the Human Rights Commission and beyond, sat down over many years and tried to think through in concrete legal terms how to do all of these things in a bill of rights or human rights instrument, including the things the Deputy is referring to on citizenship and the broader human rights picture.

They tried to think about that within the complexity of the North and in a both-and way, that one respects the identity of British and Irish citizens and one protects the broader human rights framework. That is why the bill of rights needs to be dusted off. People spent an awful lot of time trying to think through these things.