Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The budget will not be a very big draw on a Department with a €2.5 billion or so capital budget and a significant current budget. It will probably cost less than €1 million if it is similar to other organisations. It will depend on the timelines involved. For the drafting process, we are depending on the Office of the Attorney General. Pre-legislative scrutiny and the legislative process itself must be done by the Dáil and the Seanad. The earlier legislation to rectify the problem identified by the European authorities took approximately six to eight months, if not a year, to prepare. I imagine it will be something similar. Establishment of the new office in approximately one year's time would be what we might expect.