Scoliosis inquiry will happen, but what next and how long will it take for it to begin?

Although parents of children with scoliosis and spina bifida have welcomed the statutory inquiry, the stuttering progress of the valproate inquiry should sound a cautionary note

Harvey Morrison Sherratt's parents, Gillian Sherratt and Stephen Morrison, during a Justice for Harvey March in Dublin city centre in August.

Cabinet will next week discuss a long-demanded statutory inquiry into care of children with spina bifida and scoliosis at Children’s Health Ireland.

Now that the Government has indicated the inquiry will happen, what next? It took five years for a non-statutory inquiry on valproate use to move from promise to reality, could this take as long?