Mr. Jim Breslin:

There is an absolute priority attaching to getting this done. I reassure the committee that the resources are being provided and that people who are working on this are not working on Brexit. The Government has said that everything has to go on hold for Brexit except for this. This is in the spring legislative programme. We have a draft general scheme and that will be finalised and brought to Government. There is a question for the committee. I believe the draft will be faithful to Mr. Justice Meenan's recommendations. There is a question for the committee as to the amount of scrutiny that the general scheme should receive. In my view, we could save some time by moving directly to the draft Bill, and bringing it through the House.