Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Smyth for that.

This is something we see here routinely. We have in this country a very fragmented approach to service delivery. If we are to move to a rights-based approach to the provision of services, we need to have control over those services. Most of us who deal with the public will be aware of how threadbare the services are in some cases and it is a challenge. In his opening statement, Mr. Gloster spoke about reforms in an agency that was set up in 2014. Were some of these things not anticipated from the outset, given the way Tusla was set up? Why are we into a reform process so soon after the setting up of an organisation?