Mr. Liam Herrick:

It is not so much even our view on this. The European Union has developed a set of directives in this area that require all member states to improve and strengthen their equality bodies. This applies to Ireland, and Ireland has to introduce national legislation by the middle of next year to do this. We are expecting that some time in the coming months, the Government will indicate and bring forward legislative proposals to do this. We have done an analysis and it is very clear to us that these directives will require significant enhancements of how we are accessible to members of all minority communities. It will require our powers to be strengthened and our resources and level of provision to be improved.