一份与后座议员共享的政策文件称，未来爱尔兰研究所将“寻求提供一个客观、独立的知识库，可用于为具体提案提供参考”。爱尔兰政党和活动人士将受邀提交意见。
A policy paper shared with backbenchers said the FSI would “seek to provide an objective, independent knowledge base which can be used to inform specific proposals”. Irish political parties and activists will be invited to make submissions.
北爱尔兰的统一派、保皇派和支持统一的民族主义者也将获得表达意见的机会。
Unionists, loyalists and unity-supporting nationalists in Northern Ireland will also be offered the chance to have their say.
这份由BBC北爱尔兰新闻部获得的文件称：“在这方面，它将为民族主义传统之外的人士提供一个善意参与的机会。”
“In this it would provide a good-faith opportunity for those outside the nationalist tradition to participate,” the paper, which was obtained by BBC News NI, says.
“关键在于，它将挑战所有传统，从对未来做出笼统断言转向与确凿证据打交道。”民主统一党贵族议员多兹勋爵对《每日电讯报》表示，该提案代表了“南北关系的倒退一步”。
“Critically, it would challenge all traditions to move from making general assertions about the future to engaging with hard evidence.”Lord Dodds, a Democratic Union Party peer, told The Telegraph that the proposal represented “a backwards step for relations between north and south”.
“在执政党支持率处于历史低位之际，这是典型的转移视线政治。这表明他们丝毫不尊重北爱尔兰的统一派邻居，因为如今对统一的支持并不比《贝尔法斯特协议》签署时更强。”
“With the government parties at historic levels of unpopularity, this is classic distraction politics. It demonstrates no respect for their unionist neighbours in Northern Ireland where support for unification is no stronger today than it was at the time of the Belfast Agreement.”
参加周二一场关于爱尔兰统一活动后，新芬党中阿尔斯特选区国会议员卡萨尔·马拉根表示：“越来越多来自各种背景的人们正在参与关于宪制变革的讨论，并思考这对他们、他们的家庭和社区意味着什么。”
After attending an event on Irish unity on Tuesday, Cathal Mallaghan, the Sinn Fein Mid Ulster MP, said: “Increasingly, people from all backgrounds are engaging with the conversation around constitutional change and considering what it could mean for them, their families and their communities.”