Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I do not see how this specifically stops misuse and abuse because if someone wanted to abuse the system they could gather together 11 people. There are some very good environmental NGOs that do not necessarily have ten members or are established as a company. I have previously given the example that you could have an excellent environmental NGO with ten members. As happens in organisations there might be lively discussions, robust debate and disagreements. You can even have splits arise in an organisation when two people disagree with a position and head off to set up another organisation. It seems to be qualifying the eligibility of environmental NGOs to participate on a crude criteria of ten, as if an organisation with ten has a better standing than eight. How was ten arrived at? Was any analysis done to come up with that specific threshold?