Niall Ó Donnghaile (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have to apologise for arriving late. The good thing is that Ms O'Donnell will understand, given her time in this place. I was able to catch a good part of the meeting in my office and I read Ms O'Donnell's opening statement when we got it. This has been an interesting exercise, because I was reared in a house where we were absolute news addicts. Like many homes in Belfast and throughout the North, we were absorbing as much news as we possibly could. Ms O'Donnell was a familiar face at that period in our living room, along with many others, some of whom have appeared before us. I have two questions.

The first one is somewhat hypothetical, because we are speaking about this in the absence of the institutions in the North. Ms O'Donnell mentioned her role with regard to strand two in the North-South institutions. I wonder about a perfect scenario, if we had the institutions up and running, as people want them to be at present. I agree, in one sense, that the shared island initiative is very welcome and positive and I wish it every success. I am worried about any potential replacement of the institutions-----