Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

My point is that this is a new function that the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission is being given. It needs to be done effectively. There is no way it has enough people sitting around doing nothing at the moment who have the time that this would require. To monitor implementation of the convention is a body of work that will take at least one extra person working there if not more. It needs more money to do that job if it is to do it in the manner that people expect. Otherwise our signing up to the convention is meaningless.