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

I want to ask about that because this is a change. An awful lot of the text in this consolidated Bill is taken from the 2000 Act consolidating and updating it. In respect of a table like this, one would expect it to be updated so obviously a conscious decision has been taken somewhere not to follow the approach.

Will the Minister give us the rationale for why the decision has been taken to effectively take that out or not include it? It is a good idea with any significant legislation like this to have a table like this because it gives the entire European context, which is the landscape, if you like, for the Bill by listing clearly the different directives that inform the Bill and give it a legislative basis. When it is spread around the Bill with different references in different places we do not have that clarity, so a summary table makes eminent sense. There is obviously a view that it does not and there is a rationale for that. I would be delighted to hear what that rationale is.