Dr. Joanne McEvoy:

To add to what Professor Todd said, we found there was an appetite when we engaged with community organisations for such a process of sustained and systemic deliberation in which they could participate but that they would prefer to deliberate and discuss issues that are relevant to the constitutional question but not a citizens' assembly on the constitutional question or the topic of a united Ireland. It would be more about bringing deliberation to local communities around policy issues. For example, healthcare and education would be important issues. The question then would be how to connect that deliberative process to the wider constitutional question and deliberation on that. It is a mix of small-scale locally based deliberative events and a larger process.