Mr. Paul J. Farrell:

To pick up on Senator McDowell's point about a confederal solution, which would certainly suit better in terms of scale, but I do not want to over-emphasise the scale. It is not that big. All of the government would easily fit into a square kilometre, with plenty of green spaces for landscape. It is not that big.

Second - this is the only other point I am going to make - I never mentioned Belfast. I deliberately never mentioned Belfast. I said "in Northern Ireland" and asked what is Northern Ireland, and I can see lots of opportunities as to where that might be. In some way, I reference in my note the train line between Dublin and Belfast, as that could be a vital component of it because it is going to be feeding into the two communities. If it is not confederal, we are looking at two civil service structures that have 20,000 people in each of them. We do not know what is going to happen. That is ten steps ahead of where we are now. The whole point of my note was to put it into the document, so at some point somebody would turn around and say let us look at that.