Professor Brian MacCraith:

There are currently four staff members: one at principal officer level, an executive officer, a clerical officer and an assistant principal. There is currently room for two more for this phase. There is a major piece of work to be done as to the scope once the Bill for the statutory process is in place. My personal view is that it will have to expand, as will the ability to look at international best practice, research and so on. It will scale up from that but there is no designated budget for that statutory phase.

We are currently not hampered by the situation we are in but we can see already that our work is expanding all the time because of the complexity and scale of it.