Mr. Daniel Holder:

I think it should be referred within four months. There is a reasonably strict time limit on it being referred. There is a question of how domestic remedies are exhausted that is quite complex, as there may be no remedy for the Government itself. Others may take cases. An obvious body that could take cases and could intervene in its own name is the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission. However, that organisation has been steadily underfunded by the UK for years to the extent that it is pretty much at the point of not being able to discharge a lot of its core functions. It would need to be done pretty quickly.