Ms Lara Hynes:

We are currently considering the issue of kinship care. In a way, the area we are considering is that of all children who are not in the care of their parents. There is a wide variety of different situations that fall into that category. We are trying to look at it in the round because it has implications for other Departments, such as the Department of Social Protection in the context of guardianship payments and so on. We are considering it from a child-centred point of view in terms of the support required from the State for that variety of arrangements. We are aiming to have that done by the end of quarter 2 of this year.