Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In section 48, which provides that notwithstanding the guidance provided by the performance framework, the Minister may at any time issue additional guidelines in writing to the agency. I suggest that those guidelines would take into account the points being made by the Deputy. I think they would do that anyway, but I suggest I can make explicit here the point being raised in the Deputy's amendment.