Dr. Rosalyn Tamming:

The lack of a framework, because there is this gap in strategy, means there is no overall steering group where all those bits of information and progress would feed in and we would know how things are progressing.

Was the Deputy referring specifically to the optional protocol as well, as part of that? None of those pieces of legislation is required to ratify the optional protocol. That can be done at any stage. Originally, the reason Ireland took so long to ratify the convention itself was that the Government's approach is that it wants as much legislation in place in advance. The Assisted Decision Making Act was one of the things that delayed it but it ended up ratifying it before that passed through. In terms of the optional protocol, I am pretty sure I am right that-----