Ms Sunniva McDonagh:

As we mentioned in our submissions, the first chief commissioner of the IHREC is the chair of the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions. That body has published a report dealing with various aspects of states' responses. Our written submission also refers to the report of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. That examines each individual member state in detail. We would be happy to arrange for a hard copy of those four bulletins to be sent to the Deputy. It is exactly the type of information he might find interesting. They are available on the agency's website but I will arrange for hard copies to be delivered.

The idea behind international co-operation in this area is that there is one human rights standard. All countries should be held to the highest standard so that consultation between states should lead to higher standards. One interesting issue on which I will touch extremely briefly is tracing apps. The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights has just published a series of best practices which touch on the various rights that are potentially impacted in this regard. This was done with the expectation that practices would be adopted uniformly throughout various member states. There is too much in those documents to summarise either of them, but I will send the Deputy hard copies.