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

I understand why they are prescribed, but the Minister's argument was that you have to be careful about these prescriptive lists, that you cannot add additional bodies because you do not want to open the State to judicial review as a result of others not being included. I asked what were the criteria and he said the criterion was that they must be State bodies. It could just be that An Taisce is an anomaly and that is fine, but if you can have one non-statutory body, you can have others.