Mr. Liam Herrick:

To be very specific about it, our statutory functions were established under the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014. It is likely that our powers and functions under that Act may need to be reviewed to make specific reference to functions in this area. Furthermore, Article 77 contemplates that we will be in a position of requesting information from certain bodies and then following up and maybe exercising statutory powers. In any process by which we are requesting sensitive commercial information, for example, there might be a need for specific statutory powers around that to provide certainty both for us and for the entities we are requesting information from.