Mr. Jim Gibson:

Perhaps I am reasonably placed to deal with the issue of child support workers. Tusla provided two family support worker posts for Focus Ireland, but, with reference to my earlier contribution to the discussion, I would like to engage with Focus Ireland to map across all communities in Ireland the support services that are actually available. We invest heavily in the community and voluntary sector under specific family support programmes and to provide counselling services. As I said, we have a comprehensive family support service in place across Ireland, at a community base level. It requires greater integration and collaboration from all organisations across social and health services. We need not run away with ourselves. We need an informed decision as to whether a raft of more family support workers are needed. I would be very happy to engage with Focus Ireland in that regard.