Ms Janet Muller:

No. That will depend on the ongoing discussions. That is my understanding and I have no inside track on that. I believe that the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure is working through a series of discussions and working through the Assembly process. Our difficulty is that there is no guarantee of Assembly agreement on that strategy. Some very negative comments have been made. As onlookers in that process, we are supportive of a strategy but we are concerned about its eventual implementation. That is something that we would be concerned about with an Irish language act too. It is absolutely true and right that the ultimate commitment to enact legislation was given by the British Government in the St. Andrew's agreement. That is an international treaty which places a binding obligation on the government, which it must fulfil. However, we do not want to continue to have what we have had to date, that is, to-ing and fro-ing between the Assembly and Westminster. Westminster must accept its responsibility and must act. I thank the committee for its support in that regard.