Annie Hoey (Labour)
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I thank the witnesses for their contributions, which have been really interesting. I will park my initial question for a moment and just follow on from what the previous respondent said, which is that there is currently no system that is fully safe. I invite our other guests to come in on this. If there is no system that is fully safe, does that mean no system can be devised that is safe or that we just do not go down this route? I am interested in the views of our other guests on this because this is what we grapple with all of the time. Do we touch this or do we not touch it? Can it be safe or can it not be safe? Not to make light of it but arguably one could say that in every system, there is always a way for something to be got around. Is it possible, with all of the information we have and given all of the systems that exist, to create a safe system?

If it is not possible to create a safe system should one proceed with this, given that there will always be a way around something?