Dr. Tony Holohan:

We are doing no more than the Minister has said in public. We are considering what he and we have described previously as all the scenarios that might arise. We have considered the work of the Citizens' Assembly, tried to imagine any scenarios and tease out what it might mean were the Oireachtas or the committee to recommend in favour of any given option. We are trying to see what the different models might be and how they could be made to work in legal and service terms, without pre-empting in any sense any decision to be made. This will ensure we are in a position, when the committee has made its determination and recommendations, when the Oireachtas has had an opportunity to debate them and the Government has made a decision on this, to move as quickly as we reasonably can, whether we are going to legislate, or make constitutional change, to deal with the issues that might arise and put those decisions effectively into place. It is no more than trying to see around the corners as much as possible. We are not pre-empting the work of this committee or the legitimate work of the Oireachtas and ultimately the say of the people on any decisions to be made.