Mr. Colm Kelly Ryan:

I agree with Deputy Costello that this could be delegated to IHREC under the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014. The Government can task IHREC with additional responsibilities. It is framed to that effect. It is very broad and it is also in line with the Paris Principles that underpin the functioning of a national human rights institution such as IHREC. I do not want to delegate additional work to IHREC but the necessary resources, both human and financial, to allow for that would have to be in place. That would be the most direct way to allow for monitoring so that we can get past the governance and cut to the chase of zero tolerance actually happening. That would be an effective way and it is within existing statute and European law as to how best to do it.