Ms Oonagh McPhillips:

I mentioned the strength it gives us across a number of functions. For example, let us take the work on domestic abuse during the pandemic, where the Department led work across the agencies but also within the Department itself. That was a multi-functional team drawn from policy, transparency, and our law side and they worked together with the agencies to put together the work on domestic abuse. It worked very much with the NGO sector in bringing forward the awareness campaign. That was done in weeks. It was a very risky situation which is very difficult for people facing that but the Department, working in partnership with stakeholders, has managed it pretty well.