Ms Geraldine McGahey:

Everywhere. It is horrible to hear a mother talk about having to try to explain to her four-year-old child why their four-year-old neighbours will not play with them any more. That is inappropriate. Four-year-old children are learning that from adults; they are not born with those ideas. It is the responsibility of all of us in society to address racism. I think hate crime and racist events are very much under-reported. A strengthening of our hate crime legislation would certainly help address that.

Our employment legislation, while it is strong, could be further strengthened in the racial aspects of it. That is part of the reform of race legislation that is currently being consulted upon.

We remain hopeful that all of the aspects, which we had sought to be reformed and improved within our race legislation, will be delivered as a result of the current consultation exercise, provided, of course, that the assembly is up and running and functions for a full term and allows work to progress without reaching yet another obstacle.