Mr. Eoghan Duffy:

It is obviously a really important experience. Lots of people, as we all know, will not fit into any one label so we are conscious of that as well. The Senator may be aware of something that it was a feature as part of the decade of centenaries to explore the historic experience. It is something that is always in view for the reconciliation fund in the Department of Foreign Affairs. Themes, speakers and concerns from that experience have come through in the dialogue on national identity and experience that the Tánaiste convened in the Abbey Theatre last October. There was a speaker at that from Donegal who spoke very interestingly on that, both from the point of view of working with the Ulster-Scots Agency and also being an Irish language speaker. These kinds of experiences are absolutely the kind of thing that we need to bring through and probably profile more. It is interesting that it is something that has also come through from the youth forum. It is a very different generation and different perspectives but it is still that experience and sense of life. Making these connections, what life is like in the South, what life is like in the North and these things are the kinds of things we are trying to bring through and profile more.