Ms Oonagh Buckley:

No, I can explain that. The next meeting I am going to after this committee meeting is a Cabinet sub-committee meeting on the undocumented scheme. We are at the point now of bringing our proposals to the Government. Once the Government approves them it will have to go as a memorandum to the Government but we have a draft memorandum ready. We hope that will be in a few days, assuming the discussions with the Cabinet sub-committee go well. We will then announce the terms of the scheme, but once the terms of the scheme are settled, which will only be once the Government has decided them, we need approximately one month to have the IT system ready to start accepting applications. All going well, the Minister will be in a position to announce the terms of the scheme in the next two weeks, with a view to the scheme opening for applications approximately a month later. Realistically, that is January.