Ms Rosemarie Tobin:

The Senator mentioned the caravan loan scheme. There is no specific recommendation in the report in respect of the scheme, but it is something we have been working on and we have a proposal ready to go. It is not linked to this. We met with Ms Rose Wall from the Legal Aid Board. The Senator has probably seen that body's report. We have met with its representatives to agree on a way forward. The Senator mentioned the red herring of the ethnic identifier and the GDPR. We were working on this before the expert group report came out. We are getting some GDPR-related pushback but we are looking for legal advice to deal with that. We are working with other Departments. The Departments of Justice and Equality, Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Education and Skills have overcome some GDPR issues.