Ms Susan McCrory:

When we talk about a bill of rights, it has gone very quiet. It has not been talked about in 20 years. If you go up to the North and ask any generation or any age group if they know what a bill of rights means, they will not know. We know because it was around during our time and we were driving it forward. To look at a bill of rights, and I would say even the South could put their hands up too and ask would many people in my area know or understand the bill of rights? For me, it is a conversation right across schools, youth groups and community groups. Do you understand what a bill of rights is? Do you understand what rights are? Do you understand what gender rights are? That is where you need to actually start, at that base, and go right back down and say let us have the conversation on what rights are and move that conversation along. Before we ever get to a consultation process, have the conversation first.

In terms of intergenerational trauma, that is absolutely massive. In our community, we are facing intergenerational trauma that has been passed down to three generations and maybe four now. I look at west Belfast and I look at families I know because I grew up in west Belfast, in Ballymurphy, so if you want to talk conflict you could not be any closer to the conflict. I know from these families by watching them, watching their children and watching their children's children, that there are now high levels of suicide and high levels of prescription drug addiction. That is because of the intergenerational trauma. It is seen in the most deprived areas. It is sitting on the surface looking at you every day of the week. That is where we need to look at problems. How can we address them? How can we make life better for our future children?

I would even say I am guilty of intergenerational trauma. I do not want my children to leave west Belfast. I do not want them to move out of the area I am in. Should they move, I would ask where are you going? How far are you going? We are all victims in some shape or form. Some of us are a wee bit more healthy and able to cope and some of us are not.

In terms of that, there has to be something around mental health. I would say there has to be something around mental health on a shared island because it has crossed borders. It has crossed into both areas. We look at the Southern Government and we have to look at a way of working on more joined-up efforts on serious issues that we have.