Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is about people being comfortable working together. That is part of the difficulty in regard to what is happening at the moment on the flag issue.

What is the Minister's view on how the flag issue and what is happening on the streets are affecting those groups? The trouble seems to be happening in isolated areas whereas the work is still going on outside the Belfast area and it is still going on in the Short Strand, in east Belfast and in communities like the Springfield Road, where houses have been attacked. The Minister talked earlier about the importance of politics. What more can we do, as politicians, to make this work, to bring about that shared space and to make people feel comfortable to be involved in this process?

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