Dr. Carmel Corrigan:

Every child, when they arrive, is supposed to have a vulnerability assessment.

To the best of our knowledge - and this is only to the best of our knowledge; I would need further details - that is quite administrative rather than in any way multidisciplinary or therapeutic, if one wanted to put it that way. We are very unclear as to whether children have vulnerability assessments in the absence of the parents or other family members, which, of course, will influence what they reveal in such an assessment. There are many things in the system that are open to question.

What we would say quite firmly is that in the case of the temporary protection directive, Ukrainian adults and children have been able to enter the country smoothly in many cases. Under that directive, they have the right to work and go to school, and the right to healthcare. They have all of those rights. That seems to be working reasonably well for many of the Ukrainian families who are here. Perhaps we could look more closely at that model in order to see how it could be transferred to those who are not arriving from Ukraine. It may mean a vast improvement to the treatment and processing of people and in the lives of children coming here with their families.