Mr. Peter Tyndall:

First of all, I am extremely grateful to the committee for the level of engagement it is showing on this issue. It has been a very important discussion and, arising from it, we will reconsider how we engage, whether we need to engage off-site, and whether we need to be visiting without advance notice. We will consider how to ensure that we engage with local representative groups, NGOs, friends of centres and so on. We will also consider the issue of vulnerability assessments and picking up on vulnerable people even where they have not been brought to our attention. We will also consider how to ensure that the rights granted by the directive are being vindicated. Those are things we can do. Some of the other things can only be done by the Oireachtas.

I thank the committee again for bringing ways in which we can improve to our attention. We will try to do that.