Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We need to get in the officials as well as the Minister of State because we need to see where we are going. It has been a difficult year that needs to be dealt with, and we need to deal with both the Minister of State and the Department on this.

I contacted someone in the Department to see exactly what is happening. I understand it is setting up a civil society group with 14 representatives on the oversight and implementation structures for the remaining four years of the strategy. I am not sure how those 14 members will be selected, but it is important that representatives of the Department appear before us at an early stage in order that we can ensure there is influence from the community groups working on the ground.