Malcolm Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State. I appreciate he is taking this matter on behalf of another Department. However, it is almost a case of “tell me something that we do not know” because this is very clearly what is laid out within the legislation. What I am asking, and I would ask the Minister of State to take it back to the Minister, Deputy Harris, is that we need to know the timeline for when this will happen. We know what needs to happen. We know that the Minister is committed to it but in that answer, we do not have a clear timeline in place. What the Minister of State is saying is that once the regulations are prescribed and the process is fully developed the relevant provisions will be commenced. The question that I have, which the Minister of State needs to bring back to the Minister, is when will the regulations be prescribed? When will the process be developed? When will the provisions then be commenced? When, as the Minister, Deputy Harris said, can the National College of Ireland hold up its hand and say “we wish to be designated”?