Mr. John McCallister:

I thank Deputy Mac Lochlainn and Mr. Finucane for their kind words.

On Deputy Mac Lochlainn's point on the experience of nationalists, if one looks at the numbers in the Assembly now there are 40 designated unionists and 39 designated nationalists. There are no majorities. It is an assembly of minorities, in effect, so there are no concerns about that. An earlier questioner mentioned councils which work on weighted majority voting, and asked what would happen If we were to remove things like designation. Designation does not impact on creating the Executive, as such, as that is done with d'Hondt. That is why we end up with the DUP and Sinn Féin in the one government, which as the Deputy rightly says, would not happen on any other planet, almost. Those two parties would not be in same government otherwise. Unionism is much more fractured at the moment than nationalism. There is probably more of a confidence in nationalism. Numbers suggest there should not be a problem. It was different building up trust in 1998 as opposed to doing so nearly a generation later.