Dr. Margaret Stanley:

I thank the Senator for his good wishes and his sympathies for my work. The Tánaiste has asked for a draft strategy before the end of the year. We are working to that timeline at the moment. It is quite a complex area of work. We had the public consultation. We are talking to other countries with many visits abroad and have more planned. We have had wide consultations across government as well on this. Trying to bring all of these different threads together to make a coherent strategy with different aspects to it is a complex undertaking but we are confident that we will meet the Tánaiste's expectations of having a strategy before the end of the year.