Mr. Kevin McCarthy:

The key enabler to implementing the recommendations is to establish the GAL on a statutory footing. The intention is to establish an executive office. As I said, the legislation was published in January 2017 and made its way through Committee Stage in the Houses when the general election was called in mid-2020. We brought back revised proposals following the election and the appointment of the new Minister, which took account of some of the issues that had been raised through the Committee Stage discussions and by stakeholders in the preparation of the original legislation. That legislation has been enacted from July so that paves the way for us now, as I said in my opening statement, to appoint a director and put the arrangements in place.