Ms Kate Duggan:

In the context of separated children seeking international protection, who we spoke about, the first thing for Tusla has been access to and recognition of the need for translation services and advocacy. It is also important that in the recruitment of the workforce for separated children seeking international protection, we have sought to have multicultural teams. We have employees from Zimbabwe, Ukraine and South Africa. It was important to us to have a multicultural workforce. We have worked with the Ombudsman for Children's office in the past few years on the provision of services in international protection and the development of an intercultural strategy. We are looking at staff being aware of intercultural issues and cultural differences and responding to them, especially as regards family support in child protection and welfare services and being able to promote cultural awareness and diversity training with staff across our front-line services, not only in the provision of services to those seeking international protection.