Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As I said, it is not a specific focus, but it is very much part of SICAP's work through all its engagement with organisations. Many of the SICAP teams give specific local responses to specific situations and children or family situations in communities, depending on what they work with.

They work closely with the Child and Family Agency and the area school completion units. That is one of the strengths of SICAP. It is local and targeted. As part of our overall response to the challenges of child poverty, I will examine how we can engage SICAP. We cannot do that without resourcing it more, and I acknowledge that we have to deliver that. We may ask SICAP to give us more measurement of what it is actually doing. It is doing phenomenal work in this space, a lot of it unseen, as all of us in the House know. It makes specific interventions but does not shout about that. We may have to look at capturing that. I will consider the proposal.

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