Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Again, I appreciate the intent behind the Deputy's amendment. As she rightly said, these are matters normally dealt with by my Department on an administrative basis. The Deputy can be sure we will be keeping a watching brief on this as it is one of our flagship pieces of legislation. However, I do not want to take this prescription. I was thinking in terms of amending the normal public body reporting procedures, which are covered in Part 5. As technology improves, it will be easier to gather and publish the data, and we could make that part of the regime. I ask the Deputy to let me see how I will address the issue without being as prescriptive as the Deputy is suggesting in this amendment.