Dr. Donal McManus:

The sector has been working on this with the Department over several years. If the current wording on eligibility for registration were kept in place, it would be very difficult to get everything done by the end of the year. We have a guillotine at the end of December 2024, by which date we have to get things in place. We do not have the time for that now. The original wording on AHB eligibility was verbatim and very few AHBs had that verbatim wording in their constitutions in the past 40 years. They emerged in the past 40 years. The wording was quite strict and would have created problems. One would have had to go back to the Charities Regulator to makes changes and so forth. That was a reality. When we looked-----