Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 21 June 2016
Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny
Engagement with the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission
4:00 pm
Dr. Mary Murphy:
In terms of keeping a thought process at the beginning, regarding the potential IHREC quality control role, there is that idea that IHREC could be the one that holds the system to account in commenting on the overall quality. We would need to talk that out with the Deputy, to be honest, practically and strategically. There is also IHREC as the enabler of civil society to do that, and that might be more about the training and so on. For example, training journalists to be properly able to engage in commenting on the quality of proofing may be as important as IHREC itself doing it. I do not want to kick to touch on it, but-----