Ms Mary Cunningham:

I will pick up on the vetting issue that has been identified as an obstacle. The youth sector is exceptionally committed to safeguarding and protecting children and young people. Vetting is a very important building block for that. NYCI lobbied at the time for the extension of vetting to the youth sector. Brian Lenihan, God rest him, was the Minister at the time. We have worked as an organisation to support our member organisations to engage in vetting. There were challenges in the beginning around timelines, etc. It is a relatively straightforward and smooth operation now. We would certainly say that any volunteer with a concern about vetting is probably not a volunteer one would want to involve in youth work. It is a critical building block.