Ms Edel McGinley:

It is a fair point in terms of building confidence by people having access to information in their own languages. Nasc Ireland did a series of Covid-specific information videos in people's own language.

The labour market is a key site of integration for people in the State. Pay and conditions are an important part of that. A person working 50 or 60 hours per week starts at 7 a.m., does not get home until 5 p.m., and is ready to drop because the work is so hard and he or she is on their feet all day, perhaps in a cold environment and working on a line all day. That type of work impacts massively on a person's ability to engage in wider society and in the social life of his or her community. We must tackle long hours and low pay; we are a low-pay economy with one in five people in the State on low pay. If we do not look at that in a holistic way, that is something that is of concern.