Mr. Dermot Mulligan:

When we were here the last day, we said that we were looking at things. We heard the different views of different members of the committee and were awaiting a report from it. I am not sure if it would be appropriate for us to proceed and finalise our thinking as a Department without hearing the views of the committee in a report. As I said at the outset, we are very appreciative of the work of the committee in this area, we welcome the points of view and we are trying to take them on board as expressed both on the previous occasion and today, albeit divergent as some of these are. We acknowledge that is the task ahead of us and when we get the report, we will be working as quickly as we can to progress the issue.