Ms Kate Duggan:

To give reassurance even as part of this, I attended an event in Kildare last year that was led by the Traveller and Roma families with our link workers who are working in fostering services. Members of the Traveller and Roma community from across the country came to celebrate fostering, talk about its importance and answer questions about fostering. It will take time but it is something we are focused on trying to do in lots of different ways through the employment of people from the Traveller community, the peer support workers and having events like that are almost a way for the community to come together to build trust and relationships with Tusla.