18A. —(1) The Minister shall, by order, appoint a day to be the establishment day (in this Act referred to as the "establishment day") for the purposes of this Act, and the establishment day shall be a day that is not later than 6 months after the passing of the Official Languages (Amendment) Act 2021.

(2) There shall stand established on the establishment day a committee to be known as the Irish Language Services Advisory Committee (in this Act referred to as "the Advisory Committee").

(3) The secretariat and the executive functions of the Advisory Committee shall be provided by the Minister and shall include, at the request of a member of the Advisory Committee or as the Minister considers appropriate, facilities for the simultaneous or consecutive interpretation of proceedings of the committee from one official language into the other official language.

(4) An order under subsection (1) shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the order is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House sits after the order is laid before it, the order shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.]