Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 14 October 2022

Seanad Public Consultation Committee

Other Voices on the Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland: Unionist Community

Photo of Mark DalyMark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The point former Senator Marshall made around people listening is the big point on this. Professor Shirlow made that point as well about the data and listening to it, what happened in the Brexit referendum where nobody was listening to the other point of view and the data, and also the structures that are being put around in unionism in relation to the case for the union, which many here are working on, and listening to that point of view as well. As members and participants have said, nobody has articulated what the future would look like from a nationalist point of view. That is the point that has been made. In the same case, members of the unionist community are talking about how Northern Ireland could be within the United Kingdom. That is a perspective that we need to listen to as well. That is being worked on into the future.

Perhaps I would give the last word to former Senator Marshall.

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