Mr. Bernard O'Regan:

I refer to the safeguarding question. The HSE has undertaken a significant number of reviews on safeguarding in services in CHO 1 and substantial work has been undertaken by the management and staff there to bring services to a standard that gives assurance to the people using them and their families that they are safe. On top of that, it gives them an assurance that they are good services that will support people in the direction they should go. The HSE will co-operate with anything that enhances safeguarding for people. I know what the Minister's intention is in this regard and the HSE will co-operate with that. It will show the substantial work that has been done. We can never be complacent about safeguarding and just because we know things are going well today does not mean there will not be a difficulty tomorrow. We have to keep monitoring, learning and building. We will co-operate with that.