Ms Sin?ad Gibney:

We have a range of functions such as section 23, which allows us to look at certain Acts. We also have a legislative observations function, which is what we exercised in this submission. It is our most frequent engagement with policy areas such as this and is likely to be the format in which one will see our contributions made. At certain points, we will also develop policy statements on new, emerging and more longstanding areas of rights and equality, such as a recent policy statement we developed on just transition. We may come as far as to say, regardless of what happens in the law-making sphere, we believe this should happen. In that case, we may suggest legislation is developed-----