Professor Michael O'Flaherty:

I am sorry for interrupting. That initiative from the committee was a valuable one. We will capture it in the report, without a doubt, because it is something that could be revisited. I will say as a final element in my response that this committee might valuably consider how the Government could be better joined up in terms of delivering its work. Many Departments have responsibilities. There is a co-ordinating Department, but it does not have any overarching authority. We have a sense across and between central government and local government that there could be a strengthened coherence. There are many models of how that could be done, but this committee is probably best placed to consider which one would work best in an Irish setting.