Ms Oonagh Buckley:

We work closely with our colleagues in other public services to try to ensure that those services are provided to the best extent that we can manage.

People in the international protection process have the same rights to healthcare as Irish citizens. I suppose it is a broader question of whether there are sufficient healthcare services generally, especially around mental health. We work closely with them. We work especially closely with the Department of Education and Skills. A co-located official tries to ensure that the goal is to meet our legal obligations in the context of the education of children. In some instances there have been positive outcomes from having children come into the direct provision centres in the sense that it can be the trigger for the allocation of additional resources in local schools, including additional teachers or additional support services because of the children present as part of the international protection process.