Ms Laura Magahy:

I will start and then ask Dean Sullivan to contribute on operational questions. It might be the case that we need to follow up. People with children with disabilities have been badly impacted by Covid. Day services have not been available and people coming into the home were restricted in the earlier days.

It is a significant issue that needs to be thought about carefully from a policy perspective if this pandemic continues.

Some lessons to be learned might be around the importance of having broadband in every home. When services were being delivered in a different way, such as physiotherapy, we have learned from some of our integration funds that people who were able to respond to a programme of activity online were helped by it, although it did not suit everybody. As people began to learn to live with the disease, it became possible for people to visit other people in the home. That does not counteract the social side and it does not counteract children missing going to school, meeting their comrades and the rhythm of every day. If the thinking is that this will go on for much longer, the model of care for people with disabilities needs to be thought about. This also applies to older people who would be used to going to day service settings, people with Alzheimer's disease and those caring for people with Alzheimer's disease, etc. It is a significant burden for people who are caring for loved ones. I can follow up or ask Mr. Sullivan to follow up with his colleagues on other initiatives, but those are the things we have learned.