Mr. Patrick Rodgers:

It is something we wrestle with all of the time. The Coventry Irish Society and the London Irish Centre manage to reach people. My experience is that there are people who are relatively confident at the moment, and who will make applications and come to us. We are looking at people who may have suffered severe trauma. They may have withdrawn from wider Irish society in the UK. Our concern is how they are getting information. We are trying to get the message out through radio and television. We are holding an event next Friday on Zoom, which is part of the Liverpool Irish festival. It will publicise the scheme and give context to it by including testimony from a former resident of a mother and baby home, who was there as a child and adult. We can reach people that way. I feel that the wider Irish community in Britain does not understand that it can have a role to play too, even if it is just a matter of knowing someone from down the road who was in a home. They can be told to come see me at Fréa, or go to see Katie in Coventry, so that people in the wider Irish community are aware. I wonder if the Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs with responsibility for international development and diaspora, and the Department, could get involved in promoting it among Comhaltas groups, the GAA and other organisations to tell people there is a scheme. If you know someone or meet someone in two years' time who was in a home, tell them there is somewhere to go and someone to speak to and they will get confidential advice.