Ms Edel McGinley:

We do not believe it requires legislation. It can be introduced as a scheme under ministerial discretion, which is in place in the 1999 Act. Therefore it does not require legislation to introduce something like this. It does not have to be on a statutory footing in that way. In some respects that would speed up how this would be implemented. We believe a scheme can easily be introduced and does not require complicated or comprehensive legislation. That can be done now with relative ease.