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

I will not go back over the argument that we need a citizens’ assembly or an expanded shared island dialogue. We see the Narrow Water Bridge project is moving on. It and the A5 are necessary pieces of infrastructure which we want to see progress as much as possible.

I wish to ask about shared island funding for research projects. We know what it has done in the whole education sphere, educational attainment and the comparisons North and South but we need to be more holistic about the entire society and the economies across the island. We all know the benefits of the M1 Border corridor in my own part of the world. We should be moving to modelling what a united Ireland could look like and break it down into the very specific parts whether in health, education, the economy and all those other parts that make up society. We want to see movement on the Assembly and the Executive in the near future. We all know the difficulties with the British Government at this time but I would like an update on those matters.

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