Dr. Aideen Hartney:

Our role is to advise Government and we work very closely with the comprehensive employment strategy implementation group, which is chaired independently, and also the national disability inclusion strategy group, which is chaired by the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte. We work closely in providing support and guidance to Departments and public bodies but, ultimately, the delivery of policy is a matter for those public bodies. Of course, we recognise there is still much to be done in the space and all our efforts in terms of guidance and the analysis of statistics are on highlighting those gaps and indicating where good practice could be applied, whether that is learning from national initiatives or international initiatives. We are very keen to see the final three-year action plan of the comprehensive employment strategy be implemented and achieve the goals of that strategy. I agree there is certainly room for further work in this regard.