Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

My particular interest in producing the report was to try to focus on the ongoing systemic issues that might apply to any ETB. There are questions that each ETB should be looking at for itself. I think there is a willingness in the sector to do that and in Kildare-Wicklow ETB to address the thing.

There were very particular circumstances about this and the capacity of the ETB to deal with those issues when they came to light and whether it has the systems in place that allow, let us say, the board itself to take legal advice and take action. The Department is seized of improvements that need to be made in the functioning of boards generally.