Ms Maeve McElwee:

Regarding stigmatisation, an example was given of individuals coming from a particular local authority estate and saying that they were finding difficulty gaining employment where they must submit a particular address. In order to prove that issue, we potentially must define that estate as an area of socioeconomic disadvantage. We must then inform employers that it is an area of socioeconomic disadvantage, who may then have to consider that circumstance for every applicant from the area. How would we manage that? Would the local authority estate be in a different postal district, for example? The challenge is determining how anyone would know what the socioeconomic background was in advance of someone coming through.

When we consider the practical reality of how to prove-----