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

That is a key point there. Lord Alderdice made a very important comment earlier when he spoke about the implications of Brexit. I am not quoting Lord Alderdice verbatim, but he said that there is less of an interest in what happens here in Britain. He referred to a change in the way they look at the relationships. That gives those of us who believe in a united Ireland a chance to put our proposition in detail to the unionist community. As Lord Alderdice has said, people in that community feel that they would less favourably treated and therefore look less favourably on a united Ireland or a new configuration of relationships on this island. The key point to me is not getting a border poll or a majority of one; it is getting a significant consensus in favour of it based on - this is the key point - the absolute need to reassure the unionist community of all their rights into the future, including the right to remain British always and to choose their Britishness if that is what they want. Equally, the nationalists will have their right to choose their Irish identity. That is the key to it. The point about Britain is that if we can reach a consensus on this island, Britain will not have a problem with that. In other words, it will no longer have any other interest in it other than trying to extract itself from this historic problem. I do not know if that makes sense to Lord Alderdice.