Belfast City Council is to write to the Taoiseach Micheál Martin to urge the creation of a New Ireland Forum and citizen’s assemblies on the constitutional question.
At the recent full meeting of Belfast City Council, Sinn Féin dropped a proposal for a Belfast Citizens Assembly on the issue of Irish Unity, after a related SDLP motion forwarded by Councillor Séamas de Faoite was passed without a vote.
The council agreed to write to the Taoiseach’s office in Dublin “regarding the establishment of a New Ireland Forum for the 21st Century, alongside a series of comprehensive citizens’ assemblies, to examine the practical, social and economic aspects of a New Ireland.”
