Ms Madeleine Delaney:

We are still educating the sector. We are still learning. As Deputy McAuliffe said, many trustees on boards do not have the capacity or understanding. Certainly, our focus has turned to providing more information and supports to them. Our system of regulation is quite different from that of AHBRA. In many respects it is still in that voluntary sphere. A lot of our functions are about promoting, encouraging and supporting good standards of governance and control by trustees but a lot of our powers are different. Other than the power of appointing inspectors, there is a big gap in between. We have to work with them on a voluntary basis.