Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour) | Oireachtas source

This is important. We cannot lose sight of the fact that the European Court of Justice stated we did not comply with Article 3 of the directive. Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan need not worry in this regard. No one else comes in. It seems we do not bother about any of it. I am concerned about vindicating the rights of ordinary residents. They should be recognised. The last thing we want to do is introduce a measure that gets us all into knots and loops such that we cannot move for bureaucratic entrapment.