Mr. Neil McCann:

I thank Dr. Farry. I hear what he says and yet I am not quite at the point where I am capable of understanding the intensity of the resistance likely to be found. In our dialogue over the past year and a half there have been certain occasions when certain people have simply stated the status quoseveral times and then stayed quiet. The following month they may have stated exactly the same. There has been movement but it has not been dramatic. There have been no conversions on the road to Damascus or on the road to Bangor.

I will ask Ms Diver to say a little more about the process of engagement, the business of participatory democracy, which is growing, and the whole business of assemblies.