Christine Campbell

And it passes two of the major hospitals in Belfast, and that's the Ulster Hospital and the Royal Victoria Hospital.

And it's used daily by patients and staff and also those visiting hospitals.

And I use that service myself to travel to hospital for my own life-saving treatment.

And I would have to say that that treatment is delivered by a global health service of doctors, nurses, health care professionals.

And I am so ever grateful to them every day for the care and professionalism that I am shown, no matter what their ethnicity and colour is.

And if you are waiting on life-saving treatment, a cancer treatment, missing one person,

session of chemotherapy or whatever treatment that you happen to be on can have really serious consequences for your outcomes and for your quality of life.

I actually had to turn the television off.

And when I woke up this morning and put the national news on and seen that it had gone global, national and global, I actually had tears in my eyes because this is not the Northern Ireland that I know and that I grew up in.

I actually found it really distressing that...

People think that it's totally acceptable to be violent towards someone who is a different ethnicity or colour to themselves.

And I find that really distressing.

And this morning, I actually did have tears in my eyes watching the news.

And I can feel myself getting quite emotional speaking to you here now.