Timetable for 25 June to 1 July

- plenary sessions should continue on 25 June and on Wednesday 26 June, with the Alliance Party proposal to work late on 26 June being adopted (although a finish time of 2130 posed practical problems in terms of travel);

- towards the end of the plenary sessions on 26 June, the Secretary of State would begin to identify common themes;

- parties should then spend Wednesday to Friday drawing up papers setting out their "bottom line" proposals on issues for further discussion in plenary session;

- these papers should be passed to the Minister of State in writing before the weekend, preferably with a contact telephone number so that the Minister of State could discuss any particular issue with a party representative.

- the Government Team would then draw up its own paper based on submissions from the parties - this would aim to reflect common themes and would be in the name of the Minister of State;

- discussion on it could begin at some stage on 1 July, with the Minister of State in the Chair in the absence of the Secretary of State;

- the Secretary of State would return to Northern Ireland on 2 July at which stage he could take up chairmanship of the plenary sessions;

- the process of identifying common themes might continue to late afternoon on 4 July, with the Minister of State chairing any meetings in the absence of the Secretary of State;

- the Government Team then proposed to leave consideration of the working pattern for the week 8-10 July open.