Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats)
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Perhaps we can stick with that one, because it is a good example. There is no need for the CSO to report on that one because the indicators are clear that it is not working. Is there a mechanism for that to be updated and that policy reviewed without waiting for the CSO to report back? How does that work? I would at one stage have been very much in the witnesses' role. I would have been doing policies and plans for a different Government. I know you can get very focused when you are given a task of developing a policy on this or that. Does Ms Gilmartin think that perhaps we have overengineered the whole thing to the point that an awful lot of the energy and time is being spent producing policies and plans, that that is where the focus is, and that actually getting them implemented seems to be coming nearly as an afterthought? It seems, if we are talking about the data governance board, the CSO and all these different entities in terms of one programme, that until all those entities have reported and done their piece, the delivery is not actually going to happen. It seems to me the whole thing is way overengineered for the urgency we need to deal with this.