Ms ?ine Flynn:

I may not have the answers on the admissibility requirements and the gatekeeping aspect around the communications process for accessing the committee under the optional protocol. I thank the Senator for her comments on my colleagues' report on restraint, which I know was a detailed and well-considered report. I acknowledge that its findings were concerning and my colleagues on the other side of the house at the Mental Health Commission were responsible for the delivery of that report and we hope its findings will be taken seriously. I do not know whether our colleague from the International Disability Alliance, IDA, may have more to say about what is required for the exhaustion of domestic remedies before a person or an individual applicant has access to the committee under the protocol.