Sean Barrett (Independent) | Oireachtas source

The group which visited earlier was from Derry, Donegal and Fermanagh as part of the peace process, and I did not get the chance to welcome them. Apropos of the other discussions we have had, a critical thing the university constituencies did was to enrol people resident in Northern Ireland. The State has been spectacularly unable or unwilling to do that ever since the partition of Ireland, so I hope that the new university constituencies will not be partitionist, as the State typically is and the universities were not.

I wish to express the hope, particularly as we will discuss pensions later, that the ESB workers do not strike on the basis of their grievance about pensions.