Mr. Michael Fitzgerald:

As the Maskey report outlined, 240 children, now young adults, were affected or put at risk in the context of what happened in south Kerry. I assure the Deputy that I have been personally in communication with those families on an ongoing and regular basis, as has my team. Very quickly after the report was launched, we set up a liaison team of five people who made contact directly with the families on an individual basis and worked with them around accessing services and identifying issues that were of concern to the families. Through that engagement process, which was very much on an individual basis, and through the family support groups that were formed by the families, along with other supporting services in south Kerry such as the family resource centres and the counselling services that were provided, we have been endeavouring to ensure as much as possible that we are supporting the families in every way that we can.