Ms Deirdre Hanlon:

The Deputy is talking about structures for engagement with stakeholders, which was mentioned by the Chairman earlier. I spoke about the public consultation we are doing and one of the questions being put in the public consultation is the question of engagement with various stakeholders both in this and other areas. It is about seeing whether we should or how we can widen existing processes, or whether they should be formalised. We are very open to ideas around that and to progressing it in future. The Deputy speaks about the proliferation of parties involved in this, and we are looking at institutional structures under the public consultation. We are inviting views on this and are open to hearing them. It is about asking what is the best way of having that interaction at the policy, strategy, implementation and user levels, which is really important. It is about ensuring that the views of users, when they come in, are not just targeted at one of the parties but that they influence and inform what is happening at the policy and strategy levels, as well as at the delivery and implementation levels.