Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The data is a huge problem we come up against all the time. There is non-congruence of data across the island in all the areas we are looking at. We have asked the CSO and Northern Ireland statistics office. Disaggregation of data from Britain and the North is also difficult. We are trying all the time to build the evidence and have everything evidence-based to almost take the emotion out of it. People want to see how things will impact them and their families.

Citizens' assemblies are a recommendation all the time. In my mind, I had the idea of a citizens' assembly but the more we go into the work, the more I see there would be a number of citizens' assembly across different sectors. There would be one for health; you might even break health down into mental health and other health. There would be one for education and so on. What are the witnesses' views on citizens' assemblies? How might we make sure they are really representative and nothing is left to chance?