Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It was the Irish people who gave up the claim, a claim that was never enforced when people were being burnt out of their houses through successive governments in which the Minister and Fianna Fáil were involved. That said, for the first time ever there is a legal pathway for a united Ireland to exist. The British Government is committed to bringing about a united Ireland if the people in the North agree to it through a border poll. That is a step forward with regard to trying achieve one's objectives.

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