Ms Rebecca Keatinge:

It is certainly possible. It will take legislative change. It is a change that the commission has been calling for a number of years.

As the Cathaoirleach said, that agency would have a really important role in co-ordinating the work, aligning the different strands of work and driving the implementation. One thing that we have observed in the equality action plans is in particular areas there is a real inconsistence across local authorities, for example, in terms of publishing data on funding spent on new units, on refurbishments, on how they are doing the count, on how they are developing the TAP and on the caravan loan scheme - all these aspects on which there could be such a high level of co-ordination to be able to chart what progress is being made and then measure what is being achieved and within what timeline by a review body. All those elements are important. It just takes that legislative change to set up that body.