Ms Sinéad Ward:

I mentioned the EU solution because my area is around governance and finance, compliance, internal controls and so on. In the context, we were suggesting the new legislation that has come out this year from the EU. We were trying to address some of the issues as an entity working across the Border that is not an implementation body under the North-South Ministerial Council, NSMC. There are difficulties we meet weekly in trying to run our organisation and ensure both the impact for our programme team and value for money in how we spend money and so on. In terms of linking the suggestion around the EU legislation with the dataset, one of things contained in that legislation is a toolkit.

I cannot quite remember the phrase used in the EU legislation, but it is a toolkit that is supposed to be within the legislation. The national governments within the EU are supposed to effect the legislation and set up a co-ordination point for cross-border problems whereby entities such as ours could come to that organisation and say, "This is our problem." The entity formed by the national government is then legally required to look for the solution through whatever expertise it needs to seek. It would come back within an eight-month period and say, "Okay, the solution to your problem is legislation", or it may be a governance code, a joint agreement with two councils or whatever it might be. It would come back with the solution that way. In terms of the dataset, I am sure that the b-solutions toolkit could be used as a starting point to look at the problems around collecting data, but-----