Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We need to look at this from the point of view not just of the council's voice being silenced but also the approach the Department adopted with the courts. Let us be clear: matters went to the 11th hour whereby it was asked to come back before it snuck in at the end. That strikes me as very worrying. As a committee, we need to look at what we should do. Would it be possible for a statutory instrument to be considered and primary legislation to be dealt with? Perhaps that is something we should know rather than the council. Could we do a bit of each? The directive does not just deal with the right to work, it also covers a range of other provisions. For all the points about human dignity and the importance of that, are we expecting anything in a statutory instrument that deals with the other areas or is the statutory instrument only dealing with the right to work because of the Supreme Court?