Professor Peter Shirlow:

Exactly, we have a lot in common.

When this committee produces its final report, I am going to look at the way the data we presented here today are treated. I am not saying that in a threatening or menacing way. I engaged with this process hoping that what I say is treated as legitimately as what is said by a nationalist in Derry or a person in Cork or Kerry. I hope that I am going to see an endorsement of that, even if people do not support it and that this is going to prove the point that Mr. Pollak made, namely, that this State and society are going to get into the business of parity of esteem and mutual respect just like Ms Linda Ervine and others in the unionist community who have championed equality and rights. That is really important because as Senator Ó Donnghaile just said, there is a lot more in common between us than there is that divides us.