Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

In March 2017, the then Department of local government and housing and the Department of Foreign Affairs produced an options paper setting out what they called the broad range of options. Options are ideas and solutions but what got me were the references to voting rights, international comparisons, estimated costs and related resource issues, as well as legal, policy, administrative and logistical challenges. I did not see any ideas in it. That is what worried me.