The main measures to be taken by the Government:
• Eddie Sullivan, secretary general for public-service management and development in the Department of Finance, will conduct a review of the implementation of procedures within the office of the Attorney General.
• The All-Party Oireachtas Committee will begin a broader debate "on the complex issues that arise for legislators in addressing the whole area of child protection".
• The pleadings and submissions in all constitutional actions must be personally approved by the Attorney General.
Copies of all such pleadings and submissions are to be forwarded by the Attorney General's office to the secretary general of each relevant department.
• The secretary to the Government will get briefings every second month from the Attorney General's office on the status and progress of such litigation, including an assessment of its potential impact, if any, on the enforcement of the law.
• There are to be meetings every second month between officials in the office of the Attorney General and the DPP's office to review and assess the effect, if any, on the general enforcement of the criminal law of any constitutional challenges.
• A memorandum of information is to be brought quarterly to Government through the Taoiseach so as to give regular updates on important litigation being handled by the DPP, the office of the Attorney General and their solicitors' offices.
• A special rapporteur for child protection will be appointed to review and to audit legal developments for the protection of children; to assess what impact, if any, litigation in national and international courts will have on child protection; and to prepare, annually, a report setting out the results of the previous year's work, which would be submitted to the Dáil and Seanad.
• The rapporteur will be entitled to consult departments and the Ombudsman for Children about initiatives on child protection legislation.