Mr. Wally Kirwan:

Regarding the homework and the question raised by Deputy Conway-Walsh about the Ireland's Future meeting, as I said, I think it is a delicate balance. We need, though, to begin to move forward a bit and look at constitutional models. Canada is one that is certainly in my mind, and has been for a while. I refer to the constitution of Canada and seeing what is in there on the situation in Quebec versus the rest of Canada. Another model that has struck me as perhaps meriting fresh acquaintance is the policy put forward by Arthur Griffith so long ago in his The Resurrection of Hungary: A Parallel for Ireland. The Habsburg Austro-Hungarian Empire is interesting. It had a written constitution. I am not thinking of dual monarchy or of monarchy at all. That is not what I am referring to, I hasten to add.