Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Sherlock knows quite well that the heads contain the principle. There is an issue in that we have to find a space between allowing a three-year period at any stage in the process or tying it back in to when a person looking after his or her affairs would be expected to know that a wrong was perpetrated on that person that could be the subject of a complaint. It cannot be totally open. That concept has to be developed further in the draft Bill, which has to provide more detail on that. I am subject to the draft.