Paul Donnelly (Dublin West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

One of the projects I was involved in locally always had a difficult relationship with a State agency. When the pandemic came along, that changed fundamentally and a lot of the barriers and relationships that had been built up previously came down straight away. Everybody recognised that the pandemic was something new and people did not know what was coming down the line so there was an air of wanting to help each other. Is that approach still the same? I fear that those barriers may be beginning to go back up among some of the organisations. I just want to get a sense from the witnesses because they have a wide reach into the community right across Fingal, as well as with different State agencies. I would appreciate if the witnesses could give me a sense of that.