Ms Jeanne McDonagh:

There is no need to overthink this. I will give two examples - one very old and one very recent. Diageo, formerly Guinness, has been doing this for 250 years. Guinness has built social housing and employee housing. It built civic spaces like St. Stephen's Green, which is just down the road from here. The family has contributed to civic work as lord mayors and as political figures. In recent years, the company has built the Guinness Enterprise Centre, which runs a hospitality training scheme called Learning for Life. This works with all manner of marginalised people to get them into employment. The company is living its values and always has.

A more recent example is Mr. Price, which is one of our members. We are big fans of the company. Its employee resource groups go out to get information about people from different backgrounds with different abilities. The groups work to bring these people into the company. They do so in a way that is knowledge based. They have put structures in place to help them. They do the work in a very open and welcoming way. This is a good example of a company using its workers, abilities and ideas to be a more open workplace.