The SDLP has published its proposals for achieving a United Ireland within the terms of the Belfast Agreement.
Under the blueprint, a Northern Ireland Assembly would remain with all its cross-community protections - but as a regional parliament of a United Ireland rather than the United Kingdom.
The ruling executive would be kept and all the Belfast Agreement's equality and human rights protections, including a Bill of Rights would still be guaranteed.
The right for differing sections of the population to identify themselves as British or Irish, and to hold passports of either would remain, as would co-operation between London and Dublin.
Just as there is Northern Ireland representation in the Senate, those who wished it would still have representation in the House of Lords after unity.