David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will end on this. If there are people with the same surname they are printed in gold characters. That also gives them an advantage. They are the ones that stand out so they should not be alphabetised. There should not be bigger print for people. It should be made as fair as possible so there should be a random allocation of positions on the ballot paper. It is an exciting debate. It is moving things forward, not always entirely in the direction I would like to see.

My final point is this. Senator Craughwell said one should keep the Trinity constituency. I agree, but not for the Protestants. That bloody day is over. There is an end to sectarianism. The overwhelming body of students in Trinity are Roman Catholic or atheist and the faculty of divinity which is an Anglican faculty has been replaced by the Loyola Institute of Catholic Theology. If one thinks Trinity is still Protestant as Queen Elizabeth intended it to be one has another thing coming.