Mr. Cathal O'Regan:

The agenda for each of the six meetings flowed initially from the terms of reference the Oireachtas set. There are detailed terms of reference in the motion establishing the citizens' assembly and everything derived from that. That provided us with an overarching work programme, how to schedule in a limited time and fit everything into six meetings, which really only included five substantive meetings because the final meeting was all about voting. Fitting everything into five meetings was quite an order. We came up with a draft work programme, which said we would start in the first meeting by focusing on these issues and work our way down through the rest. That was given to the members and members gave us feedback about issues they felt needed to be resequenced or reprioritised. Therefore, the final work programme was effectively based on input from the members and then as Mr. Reid and Mr. O'Neill explained, the advisory group and steering group also gave inputs to help us to finesse the individual meeting programmes for each meeting.