Ms Angela Fitzgerald:

Our accountability is to here and to the Oireachtas. The chief inspector has direct accountability to the Oireachtas. There are three strands to what we are looking at. The first is to look at the regulatory powers. The second is in terms of behaviour and culture. Having adequate staffing, skilled staffing and supervision will go much further than us doing a second or third inspection. It embeds every day what happens, regardless of who is there. The third element is that every year we receive 1,100 pieces of unsolicited information, what we call UROIs. These are concerns often raised by staff which they might not raise when we are there on inspection. We do not just rely on inspections.

Another element is very much how we do our own work. Earlier Mr. Colfer referenced looking at proxies for culture. This is about some of the information we are going to be mandated to regulate-----