Mr. Eoghan Duffy:

We met the Community Foundation for Ireland a couple of weeks ago and had a good discussion. It is an example of a part of society which is ready, willing, engaged and keen to contribute significantly in this area, which is very encouraging. The broader point the foundation raises on civil society engagement is simply that civil society engagement is absolutely central to all this. For anybody who was able to tune in on 22 October to the Taoiseach's launch, there were active, constructive and forward looking contributions from a representative from The Wheel and from other civil society representatives on the island. We will be doing everything we can to foster and support that.

On research, which was raised by Deputy Conway-Walsh, we will be looking closely with the Departments and agencies in government to ensure that the research work is integrated very much with their current policy and research work. It is another point about working on a whole-of-government basis in that regard. We will be updating regularly on the research and, as Ms O'Donoghue said, that will be published from work with the ESRI and NESC as well as any other research on issues that is undertaken.

Senator Ó Donnghaile raised interesting points regarding presidential voting and Article 2 of the Constitution. Seeing that sense of connection and belonging for people on the island to the nation is very much part of the Good Friday Agreement. We have very interesting dialogue work, and we are thinking about that already. We will be happy to keep in touch on that.