Ms Mary Dunnion:

We met the implementation group at the beginning of its work in late 2018 and we would expect that we will meet it during 2019, but it is not a formal scheduled structure. It is part of the recommendation from the statutory investigation that the implementation status would be published so that the public would know the direction of travel.

In answer to the second question, we have 14 inspectors, which is quite a tight team in Tusla, we cover all the services from Donegal to Cork, and we only get sight of the inspection areas we are looking at. We have seen the emergence of an increased number of administrative staff supporting social workers and social care workers in their role, which is a very welcome finding in our inspection process.