Mr. Andrew Kinneen:

The committee would certainly be entitled to see the procedures that we complete and we will be happy to share them and answer questions on them with the committee.

On some of the issues we are trying to work out, the aspects of natural justice and how it applies in Irish law are the issues being considered. Although we are not privy to the advice from the Attorney General's office that our parent Department got, we are aware that it was a long question for consideration and as a result, Ireland, as a member state, was under considerable pressure from the Commission to catch up on other member states to put in place this points system. It is a somewhat difficult issue and we are trying to make a good job of it.