Mr. Mark Durkan:

We have to know that if we have such a referendum, and if the North is still in the United Kingdom, that nobody is then going to have the right to say that that vote against a united Ireland was also a vote to do away with different parts of the Good Friday Agreement, or to say we could do without this or do without that. Similarly, people need to be assured that if the vote is for a united Ireland, the agreements, promises and protections are not in any way dissolved by that. The shape and form of a united Ireland has to give real life to those protections as well.