Ms Niamh McDonald:

I am speaking on behalf of an entire community. The Senator is correct. The communities are very connected and they have been connecting out of a sense of fairness, equality, justice and need for decades. Ms Neary has spoken very well about the need to embed this in schools. Axis hosts a community crèche.

It includes roles like an inclusion co-ordinator, INCO, and bespoke one-to-one conversations. There are a number of active youth services and volunteer organisations such as men's sheds and Tidy Towns where we have seen this integration work happen all along. The make-up of who is out picking up litter on Main Street in Ballymun has not changed in the past few months. It is wonderfully diverse. Ballymun Tidy Towns has posted that today's volunteers are from Kildare to Swaziland and from Leitrim to Coultry Lane. I feel many of those organisations are just keeping their heads down and doing that work for fear of bringing attention to the mix of people who are working and volunteering weekly.

We are conscious of a number of community-organised welcome events. Those are not just targeted at Ukrainian families, although that has arisen for us in the last year. We are coming up on a very strange anniversary of welcoming people to our communities, but those welcomes have been happening all along. In north-west Dublin, we are close to a reception centre and to temporary accommodation for families who are from the area as well as families or individuals who are newly arrived. I do not know if that answers the question but much of this work has been ongoing and many individuals who show up at the meetings are seasoned collaborators. I take encouragement from some of these meetings having outgrown the spaces which they were originally booked into. There is a critical mass. That fear and threat that Deputy McAuliffe referred to earlier needs to be stamped out. I would question the notion that this far-right element does not exist because it does and we are seeing its impact on people who want to keep their heads down and do the work. They should be supported and encouraged to do so across their core remit, which is expanding as our landscape changes.