Mr. Niall Brunell:

Yes. We have been very conscious of that when looking at the autism innovation strategy. The Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, announced an expression of interest process for a majority neurodiverse oversight and implementation group. It will be the focus of our final work on the strategy to look at the previous equality strategies, which would have been recently reviewed by the Centre for Effective Services. We are extremely conscious that a strategy will live and die in the implementation phase and that so much of that boils down to how effective monitoring structures are. A balance needs to be struck in this regard. While there is an attraction for setting out a legislative process around that, in effect, stuff comes along during a strategy's lifetime. In that context, there is a good reason for an oversight or steering group having the flexibility to say, in light of a pandemic that nobody could have anticipated, for example, that an issue is going to be paused in order that another can be progressed. There needs to be an element of real-time responsiveness in order that an effective steering group can deliver. Legislation builds in an unhelpful level of rigidity in that. I am conscious that other may wish to speak.