YOUR columnist Noel Whelan’s exhaustive and indeed entertaining review of the campaign to allow elected parliamentarians in the North to sit in the Dáil (Irish Examiner, October 7) overlooks the constitutional origins of the idea.

The main parties in the Northern Ireland Assembly should provide the First Ministers in rotation, according to a plan drawn up by the Irish Parliament Trust, an independent body set up in 1986 to seek solutions to problems in the North.