Mr. Zak Murtagh:

A lot of what has been said also reflects Threshold's position. We are calling for the primary legislation to be right from the get-go and everything that flows from that to be reflective of it. Obviously, the appeals mechanism is crucially important.

The issue of overlapping definitions has been touched on by some of our colleagues. On a workable level, when this trickles down to local authorities, we foresee difficulties. We want increased clarity around the definitions of, for example, "reckonable residency", which, as far we can see, is not defined at all.