Maurice Hayes (Independent)

I too regard this as a bit anomalous and I wonder why it turned out the way it is. The Schedule to the Bill is simply the recital of an agreement between the two Governments and it does not seem to me to be amenable to amendment by a motion in the House. It might be helpful and sensible in any case if the Minister of State, with the corresponding Minister in Northern Ireland and the Chief Constable and the Garda Commissioner, agreed to have in, say, three years' time a review of the working of the scheme and then bring forward amendments to which everyone could agree.