Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We will absolutely engage with the Chair. I did not get all the specific questions that she asked, so she might put them in a letter or ask the clerk to the committee to put them together and we will get back to her. As I said in the Dáil and Seanad, I want to work with this committee.

Many of the items of legislation we will address, which are very technical and require pre-legislative scrutiny, require engagement with survivors' groups and experts to get them as close to right as possible before we put them into the full legislative process. Mental health supports and other supports will be provided for survivors in advance of the publication of the report. My Department is currently engaging with the Department of Health and the HSE on that point, which is important.

Regarding the advices of the Attorney General, the query submitted to him on 19 October was specifically on the query brought forward by the Data Protection Commissioner that had been sent to our Department. That was the query that went to the commissioner. I do not think it was identical to the original query about the legal status of the archive that was put forward in January of this year because the context was different.

I do not have any specific concluding remarks. I look forward to working with the Chairman and all members of the committee on these issues.