Mr. Julian de Spáinn:

Gabhaim buíochas le hÓrfhlaith as a tacaíocht leanúnach. One thing I want to mention on that relates to what more we can do. We are in regular contact with various Ministers in the Northern Executive, trying to make sure that all that needs to be done in the background is done so that they can go ahead and pass the legislation. We believe we are at that point now. Anything the committee can do to bring this forward with the Executive to make sure it is put through would be helpful.

The second thing I mention is that we will be meeting with the Minister of State for Northern Ireland, Mr. Robin Walker, soon on this issue and we will be able to put that forward. We are looking for a meeting with the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Coveney. We met the Minister in the past and he has been very supportive. We would like to meet him again. Anything the committee can do to push that along would help.

Another thing I mention is what Dr. Ó Tiarnaigh mentioned about the strategy there. It is important to say these two items are ready to go. They are oven-ready i go leor bealaí. Tá siad réidh le dul. The reachtaíocht, the legislation, as we know, is there. Whatever faults we have with the legislation, we still want to see it put through now. It is important to say a strategy was put together and put to a previous Executive but it was not accepted. In essence, what one has is an oven-ready strategy ready to go. It needs to be tweaked and to be developed a bit because it was put together a few years ago. That can be done in the process that has been set up. There is no reason this should drag out. Níl aon fháth nach féidir seo a dhéanamh láithreach bonn. Ní gá dúinn fanacht. Tá an bunús ann. We have the basis of what is needed to move ahead with both the strategy and the legislation. It really comes down to the political will now to move this forward.