All units of the FF organisation will shortly be invited to make submissions on the plan while Ahern will attend regional meetings across the island. "A sizeable number of people in places like Newry and Derry have already indicated their wish to become members of Fianna Fail, " he told the Sunday Tribune. FF figures hope an interim report on the move into the North may be ready for discussion at the party's ardfheis in 2008. While Ahern said he "would not second-guess the outcome of the process", party sources believe an arrangement will ultimately be reached with the SDLP.