Ms Kate Duggan:

I will mention a couple of things and then let Ms Murphy come in after me with more information. We have referenced a 10% increase in referrals to our service and we have referenced a doubling of referrals over the last ten years. What we are seeing within that cohort are significantly more children who need a welfare response, a family support response or an earlier intervention response. Some of those people we are seeing are part of the new communities within Ireland. We are part of the child protection conferences, CPCs, which is where the interagency bodies within communities come together to respond to particular needs in that community. Through CPCs, there have been a number of programmes to support new communities. We saw the change in terms of the numbers who have come from Ukraine. With supportive funding from the Minister and Department, we have funded family resource centres and other community and voluntary services to respond to those families to help them integrate into communities. We have also received funding from the Department to look at family support in each of our direct provision centres.

One of the challenges we are seeing now in terms of a need is around training. We are dealing with new cultures with regard to families and how they parent different to the Irish context. There is, therefore, a focus for us now in terms of trying to make sure that first of all, all those new communities know about Tusla and know how to access it and make a referral and get supports but equally, where our staff are being trained and supported in terms of cultural diversity because that is becoming a challenge. Does Ms Murphy want to add anything?