Ms Kate Duggan:

It is important to say that Tusla, under our office of legal services, has taken significant action on the oversight around the payment, what has been paid and standardising rates of payment. That was one of the concerns. We have been able to implement stronger oversight within our current remit. Our team in the office of legal services has now undertaken a review. At the time, that review showed real diversity in the fees that were being charged by the GALs. On the foot of that review, we set a fee of €125 per hour plus VAT for the GALs. Also-----