Brendan Ryan (Labour)

Can the Minister give me any reason for not including a fixed time limit? We are told the Bill is of considerable urgency and yet there is no establishment date. It is when the Minister is ready to do so. This is an old issue of mine. I would have thought it would be appropriate to include a date — a maximum of three months, two months or one month. In the case of a body which is urgent, which is limited and focussed, which effectively exists already and which we are only simply putting on a statutory basis, it seems strange that somebody, whether the Minister or the Chief Parliamentary Counsel, insists on leaving this open-ended date for establishment. I would like to hear the Minister's view on it.