Ms Lorna Kavanagh:

In general, the vast majority of our people do not present with disabilities or a high level of medical needs. There are issues around nutrition and all of that, but not in terms of the need for high-level supports and diagnoses. By virtue of the fact that they have got here, as they are often selected within the family as the most resilient member and the person who might make the journey, that is not something that arises. However, we have had young people who presented and very early on it became apparent that they had a learning disability. For example, we would be very proactive around engaging with our HSE colleagues. We make such young persons a ward of court and they transition at 18 to appropriate disability services. It is about the appropriate response at the appropriate level from the HSE. We generally have very good supports in terms of getting those services for young people. We have links to therapy services that we have developed with therapists working in Trinity College. There are psychologists who do direct work with our profile of young people. We link with the Spirasi centre when young people are demonstrating trauma associated with torture. We try to align the children with the specialist services wherever we can.