Ms Naoimh McNamee:

The Glencree programmes are largely supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs through the reconciliation fund, and some of our legacy work continues under our community political dialogue. We will be seeking new sources of funding to continue on the work that Ms McGlone has undertaken. The work on this particular programme is very specialist and very sensitive work.

Given the different layers of the work we do in the victims and survivors sector, it is important for us to continue that, so we will seek other sources of funding for that. We are also examining the PEACE PLUS funding, which will be announced further down the line.

We recently diversified our funding over the past three years and have funding from various philanthropic organisations and other kinds of funding bodies. As Ms McGlone said, we have had four years for this programme, and having multi-annual funding is really important for that. It is not as though we can just say we have a year, there is an annual fund and we will do X number of events. Rather, we have to engage, meet people where they are and go at their pace. There are times we push for a particular reason but it needs that time. The multi-annual funding, therefore, with two-, three- or four-year programmes for this type of work, is really important for that continuity. There a few different options and we will continue with the work.