Ms Kate Mulkerrins:

-----as the Deputy spoke about, translated into usable advice for our members.

In this regard, I give a particular vote of thanks to our colleagues in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP, who, like our team here in legal, converted to a 24-7 on-call service for legal queries in this regard. However, it is a fair comment to make that we were always put to the pin of our collar, even with the help of our colleagues in the Department of Justice, to get that advice out in a timely manner. Ms Cunningham's comment and demonstration of holding up an example of those 100 statutory instruments is always more powerful than words. The legal department and my colleagues reverted to a 24-7 on-call service, so there was always available and timely advice.

As Mr. Herrick said, the great check and balance on us was that these were summary offences. Every single offence was referred to the office of the DPP, which was also on-call 24-7. There have been enormous efforts made to translate what was the most extraordinarily complex legislative architecture into usable and user-friendly advice.