Mr. Gerry Adams:

The short answer to Senator's second question is an example would be to introduce the right to vote in presidential elections to folks living outside the State. This is a clear commitment for successive Governments that they have failed to act upon. That is a practical demonstration. I said, almost in passing, that Ministers from here should be in the North as regularly as possible and that goes for politicians and political parties from here as well. I was a Member here so I know it can be easy to get caught up in the bubble of - I was going to say the bubble of Long Kesh - but the bubble of Leinster House. We should try to avoid that. There needs to be an understanding that unionists might not come here and engage but unionists, broadly speaking, make people welcome. There are enough contacts in civic unionism to ensure that is the case. There are probably other examples that just do not strike me at the moment.

On the issue of reconciliation, partition is deeply embedded in the sinews of this State. It is deeply embedded in the broad infrastructure and the policymaking of the State. We need to start thinking nationally. Another example strikes me, which is very small, but causes people extreme anguish is when they turn on RTE to watch a Gaelic game or a rugby game or something else and they cannot get it because it is blocked in the North.