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

Mr. Ian Marshall:

And sometimes Senator Ó Donnghaile does.

I will leave the committee with what is not a political point. When Her Majesty the Queen came to Dublin in 2011, she commented that we need "to bow to the past, but not be bound by it". We all agree that is not political. She said that change is constant and the way we embrace it will define our future.

I will leave the committee with the following comment. It was someone I was listening to at the weekend. It was my Sunday morning fix of politics on BBC television, as we all in the room would be aware of. The actor, Douglas Henshall, was on. He has just finished filming the Mary, Queen of Scots movie. He gave a quote, and I think it is appropriate here. It is that the wheel keeps turning, and that a canny man gets on the wheel on the half that's rising while others are on the half that's falling. We need to be canny and get on this wheel on the upside, on the rise and altogether have a perspective conversation.

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