Mr. Mark Durkan:

It is a hangover from the fact that we had not agreed on Ministers. We got that squared. We got the Ministers squared in strand one, and obviously the language of strand two was squared with that, but it was not ironed out in that paragraph, which is why that clunky language appears, but it is what it means now; it refers to Ministers. We can all ask ourselves why we have let different bits go. Is it for the sake of not stirring things up or of not creating problems? We should just be doing it as due diligence. When you have something like the Good Friday Agreement, the institutions should be the process after that. The process should be the institutions. By and large, that is not what happened. We got into a situation whereby the two Governments created a sense that the process was different from the institutions and that the institutions were neither here nor there at times. We had that with the Mandelson suspension originally and all those things. That became a creeping attitude. That has created a moral hazard that has put us into the circle that we got into from 2017 to 2020 and that we are in again now.