Ms Niamh N? Chonchubhair:

To pull the thread of information and education, communities like Ballymun are really used to having to organise to front things. We have been through referendums. There is a lot of skill and capacity there and however stretched we are or community workers are, we will continue to do this because it is of service to our community.

Now, however, we are having to react and to respond because there is an information vacuum. If information trickles down in the right ways, we can get ahead of it and start having conversations much earlier across multiple layers and levels in our local community. Part of that is that when we welcome new people, whether they are in temporary accommodation or arriving into our communities through another context, it is sometimes hard to know what the difference is between safeguarding and gatekeeping. It can be very difficult to reach people in some of these settings. Yes, there is absolutely a safeguarding necessity but I have been known to lurk around outside hotels with flyers greeting people and telling them about what is on. That approach may be unsustainable. There are tons of things happening in communities the length and breadth of the country. Ms McDonald mentioned Tidy Towns. There are tons of such examples but barriers to bringing people together, whether they are third-generation locals or newly arrived, do not help the case at all.