Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy and I were at the meeting to which he refers. The timeline given at the meeting was that we would hopefully be in a position to publish the protocol in February or March. We are a little behind that now, but the protocol is practically ready to be published. It is the work of the NSAI; it is not work my Department can do directly. We asked the NSAI to prepare the protocol as quickly as possible. It should be published in the coming weeks and then we will be able to move on. I did say we should be in a position by May or June to bring a lot of certainty to this matter, and we are still on track to do that.

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