Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I do not have legal qualifications or a legal background, but from a layman's point of view, I would have thought it would be better to include the word "consultation" to ensure it happened. I have engaged with various NGOs and interested parties on this legislation and no one has brought it to my attention as being problematic. Taking the word out seems to make the legislation more restrictive than it is. However, as the Minister has a Department with officials and eminently qualified people advising her, we will have to take her word for it that this will widen the process, as opposed to narrowing it.