Mr. Michael Finn:

I think it would. That takes me back to an experience I had in Cork when Tusla was set up. It ran a pilot project in Cork, whereby it made social services available to us outside office hours. We had a mobile phone number available to us and could call someone at the weekend. It worked very effectively for us. However, replicating it throughout the country might have presented a difficulty for the agency at that stage, but it was certainly very productive for us to be able to make a call to tell a social worker who would have had access to the file that we had young Johnny with us. The social workers knew the background as they had been dealing with the families and knew how to resolve the issues. In my experience, having that level of access would certainly be very useful to us.