Mr. John McCallister:

I will be very brief then. The one thing I will mention to Ms Hanna and Senators Blaney and Currie is building relationships. We need to get back in there. It is to be hoped that, with vaccines and the start of a shift back to a more normal life, we can start to rebuild those relationships within the Assembly and get a better understanding as to how to face the challenges we face. Ms Mercer mentioned building back better. In dealing with all the issues, there is no doubt but that Brexit has been hugely unsettling and I suspect we are not out of the woods yet in dealing with the Northern Ireland protocol, the impact it is having on the economy and what it is doing. There are all those issues, but the key, I would say to Senator Blaney, is how to pull this together. It is about building relationships. I go back to my earlier point about people like Ms Gildernew and me, with our diverse political views, sitting around a committee table working out how best to serve our constituents and the people we represent and build a Northern Ireland we can be proud of for everyone. The relationships are the key to that.

I thank the committee for its time.