Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

In his discussions with the DUP and Sinn Féin, did the Taoiseach discuss community relations? At the moment, community relations are probably at their lowest level in a long time. People are in separate silos in terms of the political administration. I am speaking about people who care about community interests and things such as integrated schooling and what happens to children who live in the North, about the poisonous and toxic atmosphere that now exists between the DUP and Sinn Féin and about whether the Taoiseach, in his new role, tried to detoxify what has become a very hateful and negative political environment. It is really depressing for people in the North when elections are simply reduced to sectarian headcounts.

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