Ms Edel McGinley:

The Deputy asked about good practice. We are in uncharted territory. We need to look at emerging models. The models are kind of already happening at community level. That is in response to firefighting, unfortunately, but they are happening so we have to look at how they are emerging and to build on them. We are doing a piece of work around documenting some of those models.

On the right to protest, we have to protect the right to protest and civil disobedience but we have to balance that with how hate speech is emerging as well. We also have to be very careful around how things are policed because we are seeing a lot of women and children on some of these protests and in communities that are way over-policed anyway. We have to be careful in how we approach this area. I do not have the answer to all of that.