Ms Siobhán Bourke:

It is very frustrating because nothing changes. It is very hard to make things happen. What the 1,300 people who responded to our survey were saying to us, and what they are pleased about, is a sense that their voices were heard. We are at that stage. We are not at the stage of measuring what they believe the impact was. One of the things we would like, and it is one of our recommendations, is for this kind of research to be done within very similar parameters every two years for the next five or ten years to get a sense of whether we are making improvements. Small things could be done. A suite of resources, in terms of providing supports, would be a big thing to have in place. That is coming. The 24-hour helpline is coming. The larger things around cultural change are going to take time. What we are seeing here is that there is a big commitment to this because as a society there is a big commitment to change. In society we are at the moment happy to have a conversation about gender. Irish society is just about now ready to have a conversation about gender. That is part of seeing progress.