Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We welcome much of what has happened as a result of the shared island unit. I have a particular view that the shared island dialogue in general terms needs to be expanded. We accept we are on a certain constitutional trajectory on this island and it is a matter of us recognising that. We have a particular issue at the minute in that we have political drift. We need to ensure that is not allowed to sustain itself and that the Democratic Unionist Party, DUP, joins the rest of us in forming on Executive and getting on with it. We also accept that issues are best dealt with on an all-island basis. What new modelling or funding are we looking at from the shared island unit? Regarding the dialogue, could we look at it from the point of view of expanding it? We could have those full conversations and we could even expand it so that it would look like, or even be, for the want of a better term, a citizens' assembly on Irish unity and beyond. This could be done to the degree it would need to be done, given the many issues contained within that particular conversation.

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