FM: Government would not support Irish unity assembly

EurActiv ^ | Mar 26, 2021 | Paula Kenny

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The Irish government does not support the establishment of a citizens assembly to discuss what a united Ireland may look like, said Foreign Minister Simon Coveney at the third meeting of the shared island dialogue series.

Coveney commented that such an assembly would not gather Unionist support.

“We can’t have a predetermined outcome,” he said, adding that “there is an argument that we need to set up a citizens’ assembly to have a conversation around the reunification of Ireland.

“If that’s a point, it will be very hard to get everybody into that conversation,” he added. …

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First thing they would need to discuss is how they will fill the £10 billion fiscal gap from the UK treasury if Northern Ireland united with the Republic. For context, that is more than ten times their defence budget and about 2/3 of their health budget.

Which means with unification the Republic would either have to make savage cuts to Northern Ireland’s public services or raise the crap out of the rest of the country to fill the shortfall.

Alternatively, maybe they can go cap in hand to Biden and ask him if the Irish Community will have a whip round to fill the void left behind by the British taxpayer...

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So long as there’s a European Union, there’s no such thing as “unification”. Aside from the Unionists not having it, Ireland loses her identity forever no matter what and becomes a province once again. (This is what Nicola Sturgeon wants to do to Scotland too, i.e. destroy its identity.)