Mr. Barry Lowry:

As Ms McCabe said, the Commission hopes to draw the legislation to a conclusion within a year. That is hugely ambitious but that is its hope. That means it needs, fairly early on in the process, to get a reasonably detailed draft it can send to the European data protection commissioners to get their response and adjust the legislation accordingly. We have seen it, for example, with the European Data Governance Act, DGA, where they were quite late going to the European data protection commissioners and their input has required some very significant changes to that legislation. That is the way it must work.