Mr. Paul Benson:

As far as we in the Department are aware, the LTACCs have been set up in every local authority area. Some are working better than others. There is no doubt about that. The Senator will be familiar with Galway city and the difficulties there, which she mentioned. The city council pursued an interesting course by bringing in an independent chair who was not an elected member, an official or a Traveller representative. It seemed to work quite well. We have taken learnings from that. The independent chair in question has written a report for us, which will shortly go before the NTACC to see if it can be a model going forward. We will expand on that and try to produce, within a reasonable time period, revised guidance for local authorities on LTACCs and how they should be structured and operate. Maybe Mr. Curran wants to address the practical operation of the LTACCs.