Ms Audrey Cahill:

In the context of the WRC being a completely independent and impartial organisation, our relationship with IHREC is one where it is a key stakeholder in terms of our stakeholder engagement. This engagement is quite regular and happened as recently as last week. Its representatives come in concerning various subject matters to provide us with information in an advisory and awareness capacity. There are boundaries between the two agencies. Being new in this role, I have not had that much exposure, except to know that this engagement is there.

The other function IHREC performs for parties that are marginalised or require supports is that it will sometimes come in as a representative body and represent people at their hearings. We see this occurring in the cases of people who come in with IHREC representing them. In essence, this would be our interaction with IHREC.

It is regular. It is a key stakeholder, as are many of our other key stakeholders that improve our services.