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

I thank Mr. Kelly for the presentation. I have questions on Parts 2 and 4. If I do not get to the Part 4 questions in the first round I will come back to them in the second round.

To go back to Senator Boyhan's original question, clearly the legal advice is that it would be better if there was a primary legislative basis to this conditionality rather than the circular. The question is why. Is it the case, for example, that there have been legal challenges or there is a concern about legal challenges and the circular is just not legally robust enough? If that is the case, what is the volume of those challenges? The first question is about why it should be put on a statutory basis.