Professor Caroline Fennell:

I will simply support the notion that the UN convention is at the heart of this. We have the roadmap and we know what needs to be done in legislative and policy terms. The State has that obligation. It is obliged to do so and that costs money. We know what has to be done. It was not done prior to the pandemic. All the pandemic has done is expose the difficulties that are there and the system and its failings as they were prior to that. It needs to be changed. We know how to change it and we need the money to be committed to change it.