Ms Carol Baxter:

At the moment, where centres are opened, briefings are prepared to give information to Oireachtas Members and local representatives. Briefings are done for all of the centres that are developed. The Ministers have given briefings to Oireachtas Members but it is recognised that the issue needs more intensive work. The Department of the Taoiseach has a community engagement project under way to develop a much more intensive community engagement model. It has gone out to tender for a communications team and is working to bring in additional resources, recognising, for instance, that the work we have done on community engagement around the Office of Public Works, OPW, rapid build scheme has been good but involves a great deal of work at local level to ensure information is communicated and disinformation is challenged. We are trying to get advisers who can help to dispel some of the security issues that have arisen for people. We have been working with the Garda on how we can communicate more effectively to respond to some of those security issues.