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

Let me just make a general comment and then ask one last question. Apologies for being so pernickety about this but we have had two rounds of very controversial substitute consent legislation that have been passed by the Oireachtas in the past two or three years. They often relate not to retentions as we would often understand them but to very complex and damaging unauthorised developments or developments that at one point were authorised and subsequently fell foul of the rules. These are all cases where there has been enormous litigation. What I am looking to be reassured of is that, in this entire cluster of amendments but particularly those, there is no change that would row back on anything that was in the most recent round of substitute consent legislation or open us up - when I say "us", ultimately it is the State, because in the case of Derrybrien, it was the State that was taken to the European Court of Justice and it was the taxpayer paying heavy fines - undermine, roll back or open the State to any difficulties, unintended or otherwise, by these wording changes.