Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal West, Sinn Fein)

I understand that the wages have not kept pace with rising rents and so on. There is probably a job of work for the Government in that regard. What level of engagement would the ombudsman have had with the Women of Honour in terms of engagement with his office? Some of us would have been aware of them anyway, but the general public are now aware of very serious issues within the Defence Forces because the Women of Honour made those disclosures. They did not by all accounts make those disclosures to the ombudsman's office. What kinds of interactions were there? It is a sort of set-up group. The Women of Honour is not a disparate group. It has a core group with which the ombudsman could engage. Is there regular engagement or how does that work?