Mr. Brian Lee:

The Department has stated that it will start looking at developing a professional regulatory regime. If one is a nurse, a doctor or a social worker and if there is an individual concern over one's work practice it would become a matter of fitness to practice. If it was an immediate concern then a High Court injunction would be sought to have that person temporarily removed from the register. This facility is not yet within this system but it will be built in and will be another protection brought into the system. Tusla is not regulating individuals; we are regulating services.