Mr. Mickey Brady:

I thank Mr. Bruton for his answers. We all agree that much work must be done and many conversations must be had in working towards reunification. The process has to be consensual and people have to be persuaded.

Unlike many of those present, I am in the fortunate position of being able to deal with people from the unionist community on a daily basis in my constituency. It is about having those conversations and being able to try to explain to people what it is all about. For the first time in my lifetime, and I have around for a fair long time, people are having conversations. I honestly think that civic unionism is way ahead of political unionism in this respect. I do not know if Mr. Bruton would agree with that, but certainly it has been my experience in talking to people in civic unionism that they are very far ahead of their political representatives.