Ms Josephine Feehily:

I have had this experience before where, within six months of establishing a new body, we had to do a strategy statement and there was nobody, only me and two borrowed staff to do it. The strategy will inevitably contain the elements of a public consultation, if that is where we are going with it. With every public body that develops a strategy now, there will be opportunities for the general public. I expect we will invite submissions from relevant stakeholders to assist us in developing our strategy. That will have to be done at a fairly fast clip in order to meet the timeline foreseen in the Bill whereby it will be done within a number of months. There is a fairly tried and tested path which involves consultation and workshops. I hope that by then we will have some people to help Ms Nolan with the work. I am sure everybody will be welcome to make a contribution to the strategy when we are developing it, if that is helpful.