Ms Nora Owen:

Deputy Clarke has raised a number of the issues. Her first question was on what interaction do we have with what are sometimes referred to as the new communities or new people who come to Ireland. When we were doing our second plan, the numbers arriving in Ireland and the setting up of the direct provisions and all of that came into our agenda. The first thing we did was to get speakers to come to talk to us about how those issues were rolling out and they were not always rolling out in a good way. We brought that front of centre in our agenda, whereas perhaps in the first national action plan in 2011, it was not so much a focus.

Deputy Clarke has raised a number of issues about what we are doing or what is being done for people coming from conflict resolution areas and who have been subject to sexual violence, rape and female genital mutilation. I will ask Shane O'Connor from the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to take up some of Deputy Clarke's questions or comments.