 So Gillian, in your own words, tell us about the recent marriage equality referendum in DCU. That was actually an incredible experience. We found out about it earlier this year that it was going to happen. It's something that's happened in other campuses and we were actually quite delighted that it was going to happen here. Obviously the exec had been mandated to support marriage equality. That's something that had already gone through so it wasn't a case of will they won't they but it's the student body as a whole. Are they going to support this? It's also a very good campaigning tool for us so we weren't worrying about okay how many people do we have to tell if this was going to go out as a student-wide referendum. That's fantastic that's a lot of our work already done. So what does the yes result mean for DCU? The yes result was amazing and I was there on the night and just that 93% resending yes and I screened myself at that point. That was huge. For me and for LGBT students that's a massive yes we support you. Yes we believe in you and it's just this big thing of you don't even realize it's missing until somebody says it. You don't even realize that you were thinking is this on people's minds. It's so obviously on LGBT people's minds but 93% of the people who voted say yes is basically like you know two or three thousand people coming up and going yeah we're behind you. As I said 93% two thousand three hundred and ninety three students voted yes. Exactly. Why are you expecting that? No no I'm not going to lie and I kind of know the figures from from recent elections so even knowing that the figures have gone up was a big thing for somebody who supports democracy it was great but no and I don't think we really were expecting it and it's one of those things where we knew it would be high we knew it would be in the 90s that's the way it's gone across various campuses and DC was very open and very accepting and welcoming to its LGBTQ students so we knew that it would be up there but still to have it read out 93% is just one of those moments where you're like I knew this was coming but it's really nice to know for certain. Some people who voted know feel that it shouldn't be the college's position to have a view on it what do you say to them? I think this is a union like any other and unions will take stance on things and I think it is up to the members of the union to decide the members decided they wanted to put forward a referendum that's the way unions work and that would be my opinion. And what's the next step for DCU? The next step well now we start getting people to pledge to vote we work with people to get them on supplementary registers if they're not already on it obviously the vote is happening at the very end of exam season some people will still be in Dublin they may not have registered up here they may have faced complications registering up here which has happened for a number of students so now it's about getting those people on the register and actually encouraging people to get out and vote on the day. And finally do you have a message for people for the upcoming nationwide referendum? It's all very positive there's a lot of talk about how the S side have a great advantage every single vote counts on the day and this is one of those things we can't become complacent it could come down it could come down to a thing on the day where it's raining and people go oh the S side's gonna win anyway they don't go out and vote we need people to go to vote to exercise their democratic right on the day go tick that piece of paper pop it on the box let's get this done let's do it together thanks jillian that's perfect thank you very much