Mr. Paddy McGuinness:

As I have said all along, the mindset needs to change. The ability of the commission should be recognised and taken seriously and it should be reporting at the level of assistant secretary, at the minimum. Senator O'Donnell asked what was happening at the moment. The answer is "Nothing". People are doing their work but nothing much is happening. Under the current way of thinking, that could go on for the entire duration of the next board. No one is asking what we are doing, how we are doing it or what targets we are meeting. We are required to have a strategic plan and I got a commitment to lobby and campaign into our most recent plan, but we were asked to take it out as it was not part of our remit, even though it is more or less what I am doing today before this committee. We were asked to take it down from the website. That is what needs to change.