While the institutions are currently suspended, the Agreement itself is not. Both Governments are committed during this period of suspension to working the Agreement in areas where it is possible to do so. For example, later this week, I will attend a meeting of the British-Irish Council which is to be held in Scotland and which will go ahead as planned. The council meeting would obviously have benefited greatly from the participation of Northern Ireland Ministers as heretofore. However, it is important that it should continue do its work pending the re-establishment of devolved government.