Mr. Bernard Gloster:

To be fair, my predecessors would have had their priorities to respond to at the time of setting up. There were lots of different competing priorities, I guess. One of the things they did was they inherited a structure from the HSE which the HSE has long since abandoned. In addition to that, the nature and type of crisis and work that arises in the course of an agency like Tusla added to the very significant events leading to the 2018 HIQA report, the Charleton tribunal and so on. The agency became very centralised, very heavily dependent on the centre, to the point where there was no significant level of local autonomy and local authority, and all that goes with that. The reform of the structure I pointed to is about correcting that imbalance. That is just one part of many changes. I will not draw the Deputy into the detail of all the others, but that is what it is about.