Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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I will withdraw my amendments with leave to resubmit them. I have an impression that when we legislate, we create obligations on institutions and agencies like IHREC. My concern is that we have another piece of legislation here and the Minister is saying IHREC will have a key role in monitoring the working of that legislation. What we do not have sight of is whether the Decision Support Service or IHREC will see a comparative increase in resources to enable it to carry out the work. We all acknowledge it is an increasing workload. We need to receive some comfort that the Minister, in his engagement with IHREC in respect of this legislation and the legislation that is coming down the track, would give some signal of additional capacity by way of whole-time equivalents for those organisations to meet their increasing demands in terms of monitoring legislation. I would welcome some favourable comment from the Minister in that regard if he is in a position to give that now.