Ms Bronagh Hinds:

I thank the Senator for the questions. I will deal with paramilitarism first and then I will go back to the language and behaviour.

The Senator asked if paramilitarism will ever be stopped and the answer is that it has to be. In the Stormont House Agreement and the Fresh Start agreement there are approaches to doing that and that is why I raised the issue of policing, which is really important. There is a task force to give strategic oversight and an operations co-ordination group on this. It involves the UK Government, the Irish Government and the Northern Ireland Executive on the one hand and, operationally, it involves the PSNI, An Garda Síochána and the Revenue offices North and South in terms of criminal proceeds. That is why I am concerned about the reducing numbers of police when we actually have to really get in and tackle this paramilitarism and criminality. In the area of addressing the proceeds of crime, we are able to do more and more.