Professor Jennifer Todd:

What is now being talked about internationally is what is called systemic deliberation. This builds deliberation in small-scale local units and builds communication between these and more intermittent large deliberative assemblies. There are several experts on that in Ireland so if we were to go forward with this, we would want people like David Farrell and Jane Suiter and others in DCU, UCD and Trinity College who work on deliberation to look at the ways deliberation can take place at different levels - basically multi-level and multi-location deliberations that feed into each other. There are examples of this in other countries and certain US states.