Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I promise that this is my final question but I am not renowned for keeping to my word. I think Ms Ward spoke about kinship care. That wider family piece is absolutely necessary. We have already talked about what needs to be done and the added supports which are required for foster carers and making sure we have more. When you have those in a family unit, some of which do a lot of heavy lifting, sometimes ad hoc and off the books because there can be issues with payments and so on, the issues need to be dealt with. A number of people who work in youth diversion projects and so on have told me that sometimes where there used to be a phenomenon of the good granny, that is not there in some cases, in the sense that you are now a number of generations into drug addiction and whatever else. That creates a whole pile of issues where there will be a need to support the family directly but the State has a bigger body of work to do. There are at least two questions in the middle of that. It is mainly the matter of kinship care. I am just pointing out that there are those who unfortunately do not have that wider piece that existed previously.