Dr. Stephen Farry:

If I may follow-up on Dr. Mitchell's final points as they are very welcome. I would invite Dr. Mitchell to go a little bit further in that respect. Dr. Mitchell talked about the role of designations in the Assembly. Dr. Mitchell might reflect a bit further in terms of other areas of public policy be it, for example, in terms of equality monitoring. People are asked whether they are part of a Protestant or Catholic community. Is that a proxy for their politics? I appreciate there is a broad-based rationale for doing that but how irritating does Dr. Mitchell find that type of system? Is it the same with the census? At times, other people do not give an answer and there is this assumption to ask what primary school they went to in order to work it out by proxy. Does Dr. Mitchell feel we need to have a more subtle way of assessing people's identity in terms of how monitor equality in our society?