Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

When answering questions from Senator Malcolm Byrne, Ms Quill touched upon the advisory group that the Minister is putting together. Does she know what sort of expertise the Minister will bring into that advisory group? One of the most important outcomes from the committee's recommendations was, and continues to be, the individual complaints mechanism.

There is a real sense among committee members from our months and months of meeting stakeholders that this is really crucial and critical to the success of this Bill and, more important, the commission. Without that it will not have the same gravitas or will not be able to enforce the same way in terms of regulations. On the advisory group, who are the experts and what is their expertise to be in? Do the officials know what the Minister intends? It was said it would perhaps be in the coming days and we have a 90-day turnaround on the report from that. Will the officials refresh our knowledge of who the members of that advisory committee might be?