Mark Daly (Fianna Fail)
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Yes, absolutely. Can I get clarification on something? I understand the Minister of State's point that we have the draft statutory instruments but they still have not been referred to the committees. This should be done as a matter of urgency. There is no set deadline or timeline as to when statutory instruments will come to us from Government Departments. I know we are at the early stages of the process with this committee in terms of working it out but the sooner we get a statutory instrument the better, given the tight deadline in relation to the transposition. Some of those statutory instruments are going to be signed in the next week or two but they still have not been given to the relevant sectoral committees. That is what we are going to be doing today.