Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Do not be at it, Mick.

I thank the colleagues but I have some brief questions. I will not open them up to everybody. The first is for Ms Logan. I refer to the list of key recommendations. In terms of the construct of it, No. 6 states:

The right to participation in public life is another aspect of the North-South equivalence of rights under the 1998 Agreement. It is important to consider how those in Northern Ireland to whom EU citizenship is to be offered [and then the word "exceptionally" appears] after Brexit will continue to be represented in EU democratic institutions.

I want to draw that out. A view I would hold strongly is that it is not only those who would exercise their right to Irish citizenship and consequently their entitlement to EU citizenship but that everybody is entitled to it, regardless of whether they exercise it. I was wondering about the use of the word "exceptionally" in that case.