Mr. Donncha O'Connell:

Obviously we will have discussions with Departments such as the Departments of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Transport, Tourism and Sport, and Agriculture, Food and Marine. Many issues have nothing to do with human rights. We will try to make it as comprehensive and useful as possible. On the enormity of the task, the Senator might think we are all starting at the same time and are all working equally, but that is not the case. We are five co-ordinating commissioners for particular projects and we have an excellent staff, led on the research side by Ray Byrne. Many people will be working on these projects. I will have responsibility for this but some of my colleagues have much more responsibility than I do. We will be able to give this quite a bit of attention.