Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Section 3 and the next section deal with deciding officers, appeals and so on. While I do not have a major problem with the content, when this Bill was published, it just dealt with pensions. This seems to have been an afterthought based on a court case and I have not had the time to get legal opinion as to whether this fully complies with the court case finding in terms of appeals and the claimant or appellant having the right to submit additional documentation continuously and whether the appeal would be open. It is a pity it was included in the Bill in this way and that we are being short-circuited in dealing with it. As I said, the Bill was originally a pensions one. Will the Minister give an outline as to where these sections came from? Do they fully comply with or fully address the points which emerged in the recent court case?