Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am not going to ask another question. It is fair to say that the British Government has a serious work to do regarding its relationships with all the unions we have spoken about here. I agree with Professor Shirlow that it is about relationships. We are all complex people and we do not necessarily fall into absolute boxes. We definitely have to deal with the damage done by partition and from everything that ensued? There will always be political elements that will not be particularly interested and, to a degree, sometimes one must ignore an element of that and deal with those who are willing to deal.

I also agree that there has been an insufficient amount of mapping and modelling. Some work has been done, with comparisons, on planning around what a united Ireland would look like, and on that wider conversation. I would work on the basis that some of this is putting things out there and having conversations, even for people who would still vote against it but could live with certain aspects. Then we can find something that is better than all we have lived with for more than 100 years. I appreciate the exchange and I hope we will have a lot more in the future. Eventually, everyone will come to agree with me.