Mr. Bernard O'Regan:

Staffing in CORU is for the Department of Health to resource and I do not know what the staffing levels or the particular challenges are. I agree that when we ask any regulator to expand its scope there is a resourcing implication. There is ongoing work and important expansions to include psychology as part of the oversight in the future, which we welcome. If additional resources can be approved by the Department and they help to speed things up, that would be great. It also links back to the question around placements. The issue regarding staff from other jurisdictions being able to have those placements is that they have to be supervised while they are working. We have to have the capacity to be able to supervise those staff. We have a chicken and egg problem where we have a small pool of staff already on the team and we want staff to be able to go in on these clinical placements so they can build their capacity and do the on-the-job training under supervision they need to do. We need to have enough suitably qualified staff already on the team to be able to do the supervision. That is why the measure mentioned earlier, where we are approved to recruit some posts nationally to support those placements, will be critical to try to grow the programme. I do not think what the Minister of State said was not correct. It is that the capacity to actually support it is quite challenging regarding having suitably trained people. If I may give an example, at the moment we are trying to direct supports into special schools and work with those children. Many of the staff we are asking to do that are quite experienced because that is what is what is needed in order to do that work well. They are also the staff one might like to be doing the clinical supervisions. We are spreading things so thinly that we are giving with one hand and taking with the other. However, we are trying to increase the number of placement supervisors and best practice supports that we can put in place to address that. I will ask Ms Canton to comment on the family forums and the family centres practice.