Dr. Niall Muldoon:

I am not sure whether the committee wants me to discuss direct provision further. From our point of view, we are delighted to be in the system of direct provision at long last. We have found it to be a huge positive. Next April will mark the first anniversary of the scheme and we have worked extremely hard. We have sent ten people around the country to try to ensure that we visit every single centre at least once and we have visited some of them a second time. We have organised and completed nine workshops on children's rights with the children in some of those centres. We are slowly building up a relationship around the country in that regard. I hope we have made it easier for parents to approach us. From that point of view, we have had a very positive engagement. We have seen things that we will follow up on, and I shall not go into the details at the moment, but that is the benefit of being in the system and having access.