Mr. John Sherwin:

I will respond on effective implementation. We are currently in meetings with the Department of Children, Disability and Equality about the structures of engagement. It is still of the moment. We will work through a process of providing guidance, from our perspective, about what type of engagement will work in terms of implementation and monitoring. This committee certainly has a role in that because it gives us a voice around the table. What is not clear, and could become clearer to us through an engagement on the agenda of the committee, relates to what happens after testimony is delivered here. If we have a strategic thought about how DPOs work with this committee, with a role of monitoring not only the implementation of the national disability strategy but the CRPD in general, and have a shared strategy around that, then this committee becomes more effective in what it can do next. We had some great interactions with the previous committee and prepared submissions and opening statements, but what is lacking is a strategy about what happens next. We need the committee's support and the committee needs our support on that. We would welcome being able to come together on that.

Mr. Walsh may have some comments on the Acts.