Ms Shirley Comerford:

It is a three-year strategy. The Deputy should not think that nothing has started or nothing starts until the strategy is published. This is an area in which we have been mobilising ourselves for a number of years, and we will continue that through our outreach work, our collaboration and exercising our influence in terms of being able to talk to policy makers and to share our experience and our evidence. We will continue to do that, as we have been doing over the years.

The strategy development process was an interesting piece of work for us because we did a great deal of collaboration. We carried out consultation with experts, academia and the NGO sector. We got a large amount of information and learning from that for ourselves as an organisation. That is the other piece in that regard. It is about making sure that we are confident diversity and inclusion champions in the sector, that we live our values and that we can demonstrate best practice both in our culture and through my workforce in PAS. Again, it is just building on the work we have been doing over the last number of years.