Mr. Ger Brophy:

An external review is ongoing. Again, that is through Dr. Joe Mooney, who was involved in that previous research and established an expertise around this. The stakeholder engagement that we have done in preparation for this and its launch was extremely extensive. The engagement was very helpful to us as it provided an insight. We realised that we did not have a regulatory framework around this, which we needed at the time. A framework would have proved helpful and might still be helpful to us at this stage. The CAS is the result of discussions with external stakeholders, listening to all the High Court judgments and then putting all of that together and assessing how best we can provide it in this environment.

Mention has been made of support for victims and anyone who has been abused. We are engaged with One in Four. We have provided some additional funding to One in Four in the last while in terms of dealing with waiting lists that it has and supporting One in Four to develop new ways around that. We are also actively engaged with the National Counselling Service, which is an extremely important service for adults who have been abused as it provides extensive supports to people.