Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I must ask the Senator to listen to me. I know that it is his first time attending a meeting. I must inform him that there were three minutes for a reply and now there is a minute and a half. I propose, in view of what he has said, that the time for the response should be increased to three minutes, which is fair to our witnesses to enable them to respond.

I wish to state that the witnesses are most welcome here. Every party is welcome here, no matter who they are or who they are not. We want dialogue and I respect everybody's point of view. I wish to make it clear that in my opinion, Ireland's Future does fantastic work. We need to have more dialogue with the unionist community. That is the big problem that we face. It is not about the dialogue between ourselves as such, as nationalists, but with people who are not nationalists and have to look to the future on our island. That is my honest opinion.

Mr. Murphy has three minutes to respond.