Mr. Liam Herrick:

As far as we understand, this is the first inquiry of this type and it is ongoing. Given the significance of that inquiry and the significance of the issues at stake, the Data Protection Commissioner, in announcing the initiation of the investigation, said it was going into the legal basis of the scheme. That is surely something that should cause Government agencies to suspend further activity, whatever about the operation of the system as it stands. The Government's schedule is to go ahead with driver licences as the next stage in this in March 2018.