Dan Boyle (Green Party)

If the authority is to have a shared secretariat with the Irish Human Rights Commission, it can operate only when both agencies are in the same location. This is one of the reasons for the resignation of the chief executive of the Equality Authority, and it is a reason for the need to examine how policy is made in this area and how it can be consistent with simple economics. If we are cutting down on Government agencies and on departmental expenditure, we cannot proceed with something that involves the additional use of public expenditure to move public servants from one part of the country to the other.