Ms Sorcha Eastwood:

I wanted to jump in off the back of some of the remarks on integrated education. What we have seen in the past number of years is a general political consensus that this is not just a nice idea but essential. In terms of action on that, my party colleague, Kelly Armstrong, is bringing her Private Members' Bill on integrated education through the Assembly. This has support so there will be progress on that shortly, which is fantastic. In respect of the pace of legislative progress within the Assembly, my party leader, Naomi Long, who is the justice minister, has managed to bring forward two Bills relating - Domestic Abuse and Civil Proceedings Bill and, hopefully, shortly a justice Bill. Although we note that this was not brought forward in its entirety, we managed to get approximately 70% of that through. There is an example of where we prioritise legislation that impacts on everybody. Frankly, this was one of the reasons I got involved in politics. It shows that you can achieve a lot with what was a tight legislative framework in what was the remainder of a mandate.

In terms of the protocol, I acknowledge that where things have gone over the past number of months has been unfortunate. Indeed Mr. de Faoite and I organised a rally in 2018 called "Rally for Remain" in Belfast that had speakers from lots of different political viewpoints, including people from a unionist background who spoke of their opposition.