Dr. Fergal Lynch:

If I may, on one point I forgot to mention, that is, data. I thank Commissioner Gibney for raising it. I totally agree with her points in that regard. To confirm, the National Disability Authority has begun a disability data audit and is reviewing key elements of its own internal operations in the area of data management to establish its key objectives in this area. Importantly, that data audit is intended to cover all available data resources relating to disability, covering national statistics, research databases and administrative data. In addition, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is developing an equality data strategy as part of its ongoing work on equality budgeting, which our Department is closely involved in as well. We are very strongly supportive of that. I absolutely take the point about the importance of data and the requirement to be able to extract data relating to disability, to disaggregate it accordingly and to judge progress in that regard, particularly for equality budgeting. We are highly supportive of those areas and will push ahead with them.