Ms Kate Duggan:

When an agency provides a service for us, it has to give us an assurance that its staff are Garda vetted and are qualified. We and many other of public bodies engage those services. In the context of the get assurances from them, we do not check everything. Some 75% of our funding goes to community and voluntary and private services. We do not see copies of all the Garda vetting reports or people's qualifications. What we see and what we receive are assurances. Because of the fact that these arrangements are unregulated, we decided to put a double lock in place. In addition to seeking assurances and confirmation, we got physical copies of the Garda vetting reports. We also looked for copies of people's qualifications.