Mr. Feargal ? Coigligh:

If new issues emerge, they will go into the system and will be considered by the Minister. The Act calls for a three-year review of the Act. We will have a six-month review of the regulations and a three-year review of the Act. Should something significant change regarding, for example, foundations, we would have to deal with that information as it comes in. The issues around insurance and access to funding from financial institutions were engaged with. They are outside the technical implementation group but in terms of the Department reporting to the Minister in six months, I do not see why we would not update the Minister on those issues and come back to the committee to discuss them with it.

Regarding transitional arrangements, the documents we sent out are very extensive. The idea is to try to guide people through the process as far as possible. I wrote to the chief executive in Donegal a few weeks ago and said we want to help and if there were issues around resourcing, the local authority should talk to us. We are very mindful of that because it is in our interests to make this scheme work.