Mr. Paul Lemass:

I thank the Deputy. I will try to take those questions in the order they were asked. The first question was on the different categories of approval. As things stand in the voluntary code, the assessment is satisfactory or still in engagement or unsatisfactory. I think there is an unsatisfactory with a caveat of some kind of an improvement plan. It will fall to the regulator to set up what the new assessment code is, but my expectation would be that there will not be a different marking, shall we say, for tiers one, two and three, if that is what they opt for. I would be surprised if they did not go for something similar, so one will either be satisfactory or not, regardless of whether one is tier one, two or three or whether one has no properties or lots of properties. I would expect that that would be the case, but obviously the first thing the regulator will need to do is adopt standards, codes and policies in areas like that. That would be the expectation.

As regards Government amendments, we have requested that we come back for Committee Stage on 11 November, and obviously today's exercise will inform that and the committee's decisions thereafter. That is the kind of timeline, and we would aim to get amendments out reasonably well in advance of that. I am not sure if it will be next week. It may be the following week, a week in advance.