Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will come in on that because there was a lot of toing and froing. One of the key parts of this is that there will be a statutory instrument the Minister will have to sign to formulate the make-up of those. While the primary legislation has gone through, the next part of it - we have discussed this with the Chair of the Joint Committee on Justice - is the statutory instrument, which will specify how many councillors will be on it, as well as the chair. That will not be signed before the joint committee sees it. We are hopeful that, while the battle is ongoing, it will continue. Normally those orders are signed and nobody sees them in advance, but the justice committee will have a look at the statutory instrument in advance and the consultation with the local authority association that the Minister undertook to take will also happen.