Those, including Senator Mansergh, who worked on the Good Friday Agreement put in place a delicate architecture which was balanced. It is not delicate in the sense of being a china ornament which can be easily smashed when the bulls enter the china shop. It is a robust statement of the realities between the peoples of these islands which is that the status of Northern Ireland is now to be decided by the people of Northern Ireland, by their solemn choice. Both peoples on these islands, if I may use that round phrase about them, have solemnly agreed as between themselves that such is the way forward. This is not a sterile, antiseptic proposition of international law but part of an organic agreement, the rest of which is set out in the Belfast Agreement. It is a carefully balanced international agreement which gives rise to partnership and equality in Northern Ireland and which is designed to give both communities in Northern Ireland the dignity of expressing their communal values and loyalties in circumstances where the other community cannot take that away from them. There are North-South balancing institutions and east-west balancing institutions which are all part of a complex political arrangement.