Mr. Andrew Munro:

When the Government determined to send the issues paper forward and bring this motion back to January to establish this committee it essentially decided that all three Departments should have regard to the deliberations and the recommendations of the committee and that they should be, insofar as relevant, taken on board in the development of the AHR Bill. It is for Government to determine which of us does what, so there is no need for me to start saying that I will do this bit or I will not do that bit. It will really depend on what the recommendations of the committee are. If there are recommendations on elements of the Guardianship of Infants Act, that is clearly going to be for the Department of Justice. If there are recommendations in regard to the AHR Bill obviously it will be for our colleagues in the Department of Health, and so on. I am not unduly upset about turf wars. This Government will take a collective view, as it does on on the development of all legislation. It will depend on what the recommendations of the committee are.