Ms Siobhán McArdle:

I do not have a crystal ball. We know there is a gap, and we know what we need to do to address it. Changes that look at population change, or demographic change, take a longer period of time than three to five years. We are talking about a generation. However, we know specifically the things that need to happen like uptake in engagement with primary care services in terms of managing chronic disease, engaging with the mental health service to be aware of the services that are available and, at the individual level, supporting each individual to access the health services that are needed. After that, what that means for the population, trends and data will tell us, but I suppose the specific focus at the moment is that members of the Traveller community, children, adults and older people, know the services are available to them and that they are enabled and facilitated to access those services.