Mr. Tim O'Connor:

It has been meeting reasonably regularly. I think there was a meeting a number of weeks ago. The officials are trying to do their best. Certainly the Irish Government officials are trying very hard and I am sure the same is true of their British colleagues but, and I am not trying to kick the ball back to the politicians, it is still ultimately their call. We as civil servants can push so far but the call is ultimately at the ministerial level. Senator Ó Donnghaile triggered an interesting point, namely, that the institutional framework is really important because when people are not talking to each other organically an institutional framework which they have to be part of allows that cover.