Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will make another point. It is not a question, although the Minister can reply if he wishes. I have not heard any legal professional support or respond positively to the architecture in the Bill during their engagement with the committee and in subsequent conversations. I want to put that on record. In any profession there are differing views. The legal specialists in the Bar Council and Law Society who deal with planning law, environmental law and local government matters have been very critical and sceptical of the architecture. The Minister is absolutely right that they have made the point that they have been asked to take, in good faith, an architecture the details of which none of us know because they have not been decided. It is important that the Minister and his officials hear that there is a lot of scepticism about the architecture itself.