Ms Orla Twomey:

I do not think there was no sense of urgency. The working group went through a process and codes were launched in February 2018. On behalf of the ASAI, I made a number of inquiries to the Department over the subsequent time, about the monitoring system it would set up and the guidance note. Information was not coming back on that, so we started looking at bringing them into our own code. We talked to industry about it. It was supportive of us doing it. We have been working on it.

When one is incorporating rules into a code, one has to make sure there are no unintended consequences, which we have been working through. I appreciate it is some time since the rules were launched by the Department, but as a self-regulatory organisation, these were-----