Dr. Cl?ona Saidl?ar:

I wish to back up what Professor Healy said about data and NGOs. If there is an opportunity to write that into legislation or support it in some way here it might be something we should follow up on. It is a critical piece. When vulnerable populations, who have difficulty accessing anywhere, do access services, we need to be able to community effectively back up into policy what we know and also keep that door open in terms of access. I am not sure legislation is where that lives. We already have the Data Protection Act. We will certainly come back to Professor Healy because it is a critical part of the picture.

To reiterate, for us one of the big advantages here is encompassing sexual assault victims into the protections that rape victims enjoy already. There is an opportunity here to address a range of other gaps that we have in sexual offences at the moment. We would identify some of those and have listed them in the written submission. We do not have an offence of digital rape at the moment. There is an EU victims draft which does include that. This is an opportunity to get ahead of that. In terms of voyeurism, there is also the voyeurism where an individual is not aware they are subject to voyeurism. There is a gap there. We think there is an opportunity to expand access to special measures quite significantly here. That is important as they are quite limited. We have intermediaries in place now. It is a really specialised and important piece of work. We are under-utilising them currently and this is an opportunity to expand that to not only support around questions but also around answers and to equip the judges to allow for novel ways of providing that access. That is my closing list.