Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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I will move on to the issue of how the population of the country has substantially changed in the sense that we have huge numbers from abroad. We have more than 530,000 people now working in Ireland who are non-Irish and, therefore, we have a hug number of families where parents are not originally from Ireland. That then poses new challenges within Tusla's area. How is Tusla now developing programmes to deal with the change? For instance, I visited one facility recently in which more than 6,000 people work and there are 95 different nationalities. That must now bring its own challenges. Are we adequately equipped to deal with those new challenges?