Ms Aileen Leonard Dibra:

I thank Ms Kennelly. I will circle back to her comments regarding the immigration clinics and whatnot that carried on virtually.

To highlight something we mentioned in our statement, the coalition's immigration analysis initiative is thankful to its partners at the embassy in Washington DC who, with the onset of the Trump Administration four years ago, came together with generous funding from the then Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to make this happen. The centres do a magnificent job of answering the questions of members of the Irish community who come to them. I am pleased to say that we at the coalition on the national level feed that information into the centres. My partner, Mr. Stahl, walks me through the legal side of everything input from the centres, which have magnificent legal minds working for them. It is a real national effort. We have been able to streamline information, let the Irish community know that this is where people will get accurate and reliable information, to educate themselves and to go to the centres to get the support necessary to make the best and most educated decisions for themselves, based on their personal immigration cases.

I would welcome members of the committee to follow the coalition. We post and distribute everything publicly for the most part, on our social media, in order that people have access to it. We would welcome it were members to see what we are doing and perhaps we will send the committee a follow up on some of the work we have done in the past four years. Feedback has been great from our members and support from them in distributing that information to their regional clients has been fantastic. Our partnership with the embassy is priceless. The support from the consular offices who feed into and use the materials also is really great. I wanted to highlight that because it is a significant programme that we do and it is very helpful.

One of the last questions was from the Chair looking at the diverse diaspora. I think it is something that we have done very well stateside for a number of reasons. We have some social justice work going on here outside of the coalition, within our own cultural context. In keeping with the diaspora strategy, as well as the immigrant support programme that highlights looking at non-traditional diaspora members, the coalition through our social services committee is now looking closely at inclusivity and how to look at different areas of the Irish diaspora that our centres serve, whether it be racial diversity or the LGBTQ+ community, who all make up the amazing Irish diaspora here in the United States. We are happy to be doing that work and happy to continue that work. I am going to hand to my colleague, Mr. Millar, who has done a lot of work here within the Irish context also.