Holly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats)
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As we are short on time, I have another question about what we are talking about. I thank Sr. Keenan and Mr. Killoran for those responses. We were talking about the need to streamline the information between the different Departments. This would prevent people having to go through these bureaucratic hoops from constantly filling in form after form, as well as the difficulties that arise when there are language barriers and all of that. I sometimes hear concerns about when people go to one Department, they perhaps being reported to the other if they do not have any kind of a stamp. There is a need for a firewall in those situations, as well as a need to streamline the information to prevent the consistent filling out of the same form over and over again. Do the witnesses have any advice on how there could be the right balance, or how there could be a way of doing both?