Ms Deirdre Walsh:

Yes. We intend in the coming months to seek the positive resolution of both Houses of the Oireachtas to go ahead and designate the counsellors and psychotherapists by regulation. We do not have to amend the primary Act. We will then go to the Public Appointment Service and ask it to seek expressions of interest in establishing the 13-person registration board. The members are then appointed by the Minister and set about the task. It will be quite a task. They have to set qualifications and decide on the titles to be protected. There also is the issue of grandparenting qualifications. It is going to be a difficult road.