Mr. Fintan Towey:

It was covered briefly earlier. The intention was to move as quickly as possible and introduce the requirement on Friday, 3 December. In the event, the process of converting what the Government had decided in principle into the binding legal obligations took some time. That aligned with the need to give passengers forewarning of the timeframe to allow them comply with legal obligations, and that led to the date being moved from 3 December to 5 December.