Professor Conor O'Mahony:

I apologise as in formulating my answer, I forgot the second part of the question. There is a reality that the nature of the topic cuts across the remit of several Departments. It is part of the reason it has taken so long to get where it is.

It is also part of the reason why it is so hard to get consensus on this issue because when one has that many different stakeholders who all have their own views and priorities, it can be very difficult to get them all on to the same page. There is no doubt that is a significant complicating factor in formulating this legislation and in arriving at the best possible result. As the old saying goes about too many cooks, which might be a little too harsh to use in this context, it is just the reality that the more people that are involved, the more variables there are in the equation and it makes it harder-----