Dr. Stephen Farry:

I welcome Senator Mitchell. I was a young staffer with the Alliance Party delegation in 1998, so I remember him well and all his efforts to find progress. My question concerns reconciliation and overcoming divisions in Northern Ireland. One of the limitations of the agreement was that it tended almost to freeze identities in the same way the Dayton Agreement in Bosnia also tended to freeze identities. Senator Mitchell has spoken about his hopes that we would see reconciliation. Obviously, we have seen progress but is Senator Mitchell disappointed we have not seen more progress around things like integrated schools, shared housing and other areas where communities should be coming together?