Ms Niamh McDonald:

Preparation is key. We give training at the FRO and bring communities together to build resilient, strong communities. In the crash of 2008, the community sector was gutted. We need to built that back up stronger. We need to use right now as an opportunity to build our communities for what is coming down the line with climate change. The far right is not going to go anywhere, so it is about resources and building resilient communities. In addition, we need education everywhere, across our media, across our political class, in our schools and in our communities.

I spoke about the solidarity piece. That has to be part of everything we are doing. We should have communities for all in football and GAA. It should be a theme that runs through our communities. That is it.

I refer to resources. There has to be a class analysis of what we are doing. We have to understand the cost-of-living crisis, the housing crisis, healthcare and all of that and how that is weaponised by the far right, but also the inaction of the Government around that. We are one of the richest countries in the world but our inequality keeps dividing. Single parents are out with their buggies because they want homes for their babies. They perceive that someone else is taking their homes when actually it is the Government that is not providing its end of the social contract in what it should be providing to everybody in this State.

On messaging and framing, there is messaging and framing guidance around how we bring a welcoming message from our State and Government. That includes the international protection accommodation services, IPAS, and how it speaks to and treats people, as well as how the Government and how our social welfare does so. This runs through our community, and it runs through our State institutions and how people are spoken to. There has to be a societal approach from every single actor.

I thank Deputy Gannon for complimenting our work. I appreciate it.