Mr. Mark Huddleston:

Since the start of the year, we have fully engaged with the Executive Office in Northern Ireland and we are going to reach out next week to their counterparts in the Republic of Ireland. As we develop Investment Area 1.3, which is building positive relations, we have looked closely at the Northern refugee and asylum support and integration strategy for Northern Ireland, which is still in development and which, with no executive, cannot be implemented. We believe there are ways we can use the PEACEPLUS funding and, in particular, Investment Area 1.3 to address some of the challenges. We do not have the same numbers but the numbers the Executive Office has given us suggest we are looking at about 3,000 to 4,000 Ukrainians as well as growing and high numbers of asylum seekers. We have a large Syrian community, for example, that is growing. While the numbers have slowed down somewhat, the Department is keen for us to try to support that. We are fully engaged with it, whether in respect of capacity building or further activity that will build positive relations for those new communities, recognising, as the Chairman said, that a lot of them have integrated themselves very quickly, especially in the case of the Ukrainian community, and found work in the North as well.