Ms Kate Duggan:

I might just give you the figures, Chair, if you do not mind. A question was asked about the increase in terms of separated children. There has been a 13.5% increase in the number referred in the year to date. A total of 547 have been referred in the year to date, versus 482 during the same period last year, and there has been a 34% increase in the number of those in care or accommodated by Tusla. On 31 August of this year, there were 528, and that was 393 last year, so we are seeing a growing increase in terms of-----