Pat Rabbitte

And I think the Sam McBride piece, he was there on the night, is interesting because his clear conclusion is it could not have happened without being facilitated by the paramilitaries.

And I think, you know, the politicians generally in Northern Ireland have given no leadership on the issue.

The cop-out, as you heard this week, is that, oh, immigration is a matter for Westminster, and they cop out of it.

I mean, the question of the transfer of resources to...

to multi-disadvantaged areas that Paul talks about is, of course, essential.

But there is an upfront racist dimension to what happened in Belfast that...

I wouldn't like to think that it's of the same tenor as what has happened down here.

And if I could just say very briefly

politicians, there are individual politicians, you know, Naomi Long's stance, for example, was exemplary and so on.

But it's not, we shouldn't turn it into a green-orange issue.

And politicians are saying that immigration is not our responsibility, it's Westminster.

That's a fact.

And