Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Perhaps I will tease it out a bit. People voted for abstentionist MPs because they see Westminster as not as the solution but as the problem. The more we see coming out of Westminster the more we recognise that is the problem. When we consider the Six Counties and the neglect over the years and decades and the disparity between North and South, there is an enormous neglect there that has not been served. More and more citizens across the communities in the North are beginning to realise that their interests and the interests of their families are not served from Westminster, and we also believe that. There are more than 50 Scottish MPs in Westminster. Perhaps we should ask them what influence they have on policy there, or what influence they have at the moment. We can see and hear them with the Scottish accents on TV but what real influence are they having on policy? I do not believe they are having any.