Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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The institutions, we hope, will be back up and running soon and we all recognise the need, at least in this committee, to have the institutions back up and running as quickly as possible. Is this work that could be done under the communities portfolio regarding grassroots and the feeding-up from there, with collaboration between the Department here and the Department in the North? At the end of the day, it is just about giving people a voice. It is not about dictating to people what to say or feel, but the value of this work is enormous into the future. My party colleagues will speak to this later, but we will do whatever we can to be useful in ensuring the voices that have contributed to the witnesses' research are respected and that there will not be just the consultation fatigue they mentioned. We should show it is valuable, and there is a willingness among all parties and none within this committee to ensure the value of that work will be captured and combined with the other work we have been doing as a committee. I thank the witnesses.