Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Bertók for that. In a way he is throwing the ball back to us to work out these complexities, which is fair enough, but I thank him for setting out the parameters. What I understand him to say is to proceed incrementally and start with the high risk. That seems to be the general approach, and not to be too burdensome. Mr. Bertók mentioned, and my limited knowledge tells me this would be the case in the United States, that some of what we might consider the high risk groups, namely, big, well-resourced commercial interests potentially can side-step lobbying regulation by using not-for-profit fronts. Is that something that is recognised in lobbying legislation? Is it something different states have attempted to deal with by trying to bring those groups that pretend to be not-for-profit but are actually acting in the interests of particular commercial interests into the scope of the legislation?