Ms Julie Sinnamon:

To be clear, I am here today wearing my EOB hat but, obviously, there is a crossover between the two bodies, which is why it was considered important that I would be the common denominator in respect of the interface for both. Since I was last here in May of last year, we have published the detailed implementation plan and the Tánaiste subsequently published the strategic framework, which is an attempt to bring together the various silos of work that are going on and to prioritise within that. In many ways, that detailed implementation plan sets out every action that was listed in the report of the commission. We have taken a number of them that are specific to our terms of reference. In fact, almost the opposite of the Senator's question could be argued, whereby it is actually freeing up the key focus of the implementation of the oversight group for the other, non-cultural issues because they are largely being dealt with, other than being communicated in terms of what is happening and keeping people up to speed.

At this stage, 37 of the 38 early actions have been reported on and 12 of the actions have been completed. We will have another meeting either at the end of March or in April. We have proposed dates for that. I will be very happy to come back before the committee to brief it fully on the other actions and the wider agenda the commission is involved in. Certainly, we are looking at every aspect of that. Some of them are very long-term actions that, by their nature, are going to take time. Various tenders are involved, which will take time. I would hope that after we meet again at the end of March and when we come back here, there will have been substantial further progress.