Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Yes I know but I have not said a word up now and no one else was pulled up on time.

We need notice in advance of Report Stage with significant lead in time to Report Stage around the Government outlining its amendments to this Bill. We should not get the Government amendments on the Report Stage of the Bill just before Report Stage, where again we are grappling to catch up. There needs to be a lead in time where we have time to fully absorb the extent to which the Government is meeting commitments it is making here. In this case the Minister of State is making the commitment that this lack of reference to biodiversity conservation is an omission in the Bill. If that is the commitment the Minister of State is making, that these will be inserted in the national policy planning statements and elsewhere where they should be included in this grouping, then we need to see the proof of that well in advance of Report Stage.