Francis Noel Duffy (Dublin South West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Robertson for his insight and wisdom. I congratulate him on last year's elections, which I watched with interest night and day. I am happy to see the Green Party in a partnership in that government. It is great to see.

My questions have been covered. I have much writing here and I know the issues have been covered the whole way through. I go back to what Senator Martin asked. Mr. Robertson mentioned the 2014 mechanisms and will these be used by the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliament to move forward on a referendum? Does the parliament put these in place and the referendum would happen or does Westminster need to be told? Is it just notified? Could Westminster say the referendum cannot happen? What are the mechanisms in this respect and could a referendum just be done?