David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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I hear that. I just want to make a point because obviously there is political pressure on all of us to act on the report. That is understandable and correct. In my view, the recommendations stand on their own merits. The Government of the day has to make decisions on how to begin to implement the recommendations in the report. The sequencing of it is really important for me. Am I right in saying that there are some legislative changes that can be done very quickly, but then there are others in respect of which the report recommends that the Department should take a collective leadership approach, that there is engagement with stakeholders? That would have to be done before some of the other legislative changes should be enacted. In other words, there is a sequencing involved here. Is that what Ms O’Shea envisaged when she made the recommendations?