Ms Patricia King:

I will deal with the Deputy's first point. Our judgment, and we have taken advice on this, is that the regulation could be used and putting forward the regulation would be a relatively swift and easy affair. Section 58 provides that the Minister could lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas any such revised regulation and it would be valid from the time of its making until the Oireachtas decided otherwise. We think that could happen quickly and would remove this serious flaw in the current procedure.