Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I reiterate there will be 100 members, including a chairperson who, as I pointed out to Deputy Martin, must be a person of experience and ability and have a high degree of public acceptability. There will be 66 ordinary citizens and the remaining 33 will be drawn from Members of the Oireachtas and will include one parliamentarian from each of political parties in Northern Ireland, to which invitations have been extended. The 66 persons will be recruited through the engagement of a bona fide polling company, will be selected from the electoral register, and will act as citizen members. The selection will therefore be as representative as possible in terms of gender, age, social class and region. The selection process will be overseen by the chairperson of the convention. It is proposed that the involvement of citizens from Northern Ireland and Irish people abroad will be facilitated by electronic means, social media and other web-based innovative technology. Such technology can also help citizens at home. Provision will be made by the secretariat for the establishment of a ready-to-go website with the capacity to disseminate information widely, provide interactivity with citizens at home and abroad and broadcast proceedings on-line as required.

That is what is going to happen. Let us see how effective it can be and if it is not as effective as it should be we can change it.

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