Ms Tanya Ward:

I do not see how else we are going to work out these issues if we do not secure a bilateral, British-Irish agreement. There is a view that we cannot do this, that the only agreement that can be reached will be between the European Union and the UK and that we must wait and see what happens.

If that is the only show in town, we will have to adapt our strategy and work with whatever agreement is put in place. However, it is clear that there are many different areas in which children and young people are impacted by transnational issues. We have to find some form of legal instrument to deal with those issues because we cannot leave those children exposed.