Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Does it cover issues across the jurisdiction, not just in Cork? In other words, it is not just a snapshot of the experience in Cork; there is engagement country-wide with people who come to it for support.

The delegates have mentioned, as have others, the situation in Italy and Greece for those who were fortunate enough to reach those shores with the support of the Irish Naval Service and others who have played a wonderful role in the Mediterranean. We are conscious that the issues in Italy have not yet been resolved. Will the delegates comment on this as there has been ongoing engagement, including by the former Chairman of this committee who is now the Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality? Will the delegates update us on the difficulties being encountered there?

Leaving the Calais 200 aside, the criteria for the identification of unaccompanied children have been laid down by Tusla. Ms DeWan spoke about profiling, but there is profiling involved, given Tusla's indication of the acceptable target, within a particular age group and so on.

It is very particular and is confined to a small age profile. We would have previously expressed concern about this.

I will conclude by advising the witnesses, as I did our previous guests at the earlier session, that the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald will be coming before this committee next month on matters pertaining to her Department. We took a decision when we were determining our work programme that we would write to her and ask that she would specifically address these matters, namely, migration and the refugee crisis and she has replied in the positive. We will be having a committee engagement with the Minister specifically on these matters. Our report will follow that engagement and will be published in the new year. If the witnesses were here as members of the committee with the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in front of them, what question would they put to her?

I ask the witnesses to comment on that collection of queries and ideas.