Clerk to the Committee:

An issue we are looking at and have been looking at is to go to the CPP and the Dáil. Ultimately, the Dáil decides on the terms and the powers of the PAC. It is a Dáil standing order and the Dáil changes it. If the Dáil decides we can look at what Mr. Watt has outlined in regard to the set-up costs, there may be scope to do a piece of work around that. I think that is what we should do immediately. We should look at the possibilities and get the advice we need in order to make a submission to the CPP in the short term.