Ms Rachel Downes:

We did major work on advertising the cessation date. We went to all the Sunday newspapers in Ireland, the UK and America. Unfortunately, advertising is cost-prohibitive. I completely understand what Deputy Munster is saying about operational costs. We have tried. Many of our operational costs go towards survivors. We have a free telephone service and a free post service. We undertake outreach to ensure we get out to meet survivors. That is part of our work as well. We tried to ensure that we used our networks, and a poster campaign was run. That would have been in every general practitioner office, social protection office and Garda office. We used as many extensive networks as we could to get the word out.