Mr. Eoghan Halvey:

There is pre-existing unification in sport. There was a comment made about not knowing which church to attend for a funeral and that shows there is pre-existing unification.

To help sport to unify at a younger age, my friend is part of the Irish under-18 rugby academy and the academy travels all around the country, including to the North, because the sport of rugby is already unified. There is a great variety of sports played in Ireland and it would be great if they could follow the example of rugby. Of course, the GAA is already united with its inter-county championships and a lot of titles have been won by teams in the North.

I thank Senator Martin for his comments about passion because I am passionate on topics like this.

Another question was how can climate change be better if it is unified. Let us consider the FridaysForFuture strike in 2018 and strikes took place all around Ireland and all around the world. The initiative did get governments working. Some governments were completely oblivious to climate change but the FridaysForFuture movement did help. We need further strikes like that and further co-operation with our shared policies. For example, being carbon neutral by 2050 or Northern Ireland's renewable energy policy, which I do not think is shared in the Republic. Northern Ireland seeks at a minimum to source it energy from 80% renewable energy by 2050.