Mr. Fred McBride:

Yes.

There were further questions, those on data protection. We would normally report any data breach to the Data Protection Commissioner. I believe that the question of whether a specific breach occurred in the case in question will form part of the inquiry, so I will leave the matter at that. We have engaged with the Data Protection Commissioner. That office has written to us to confirm that it will conduct an investigation into our data protection systems and processes.

We very much welcome that. I do not think there was a specific suggestion that data protection problems were systemic. It wrote to us saying that it wanted to clarify whether there were any systemic problems, so we very much welcome the engagement of the Data Protection Commissioner.

As I said earlier, we carried out a high-level assessment and there were findings and issues that we need to deal with. Hitherto, as regards data protection and freedom of information functions, we have been reliant on the HSE through a memorandum of understanding when Tusla was set up as a separate body. I am now determined that we need to invest in our own management capacity around data protection, freedom of information and the like in order that we are completely self-sufficient in these matters and not relying on another State agency. That is where we are up to with that. I do not know whether my colleague would like to say any more than that concerning data protection.