Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Specifically, the problem we have with the Irish Constitution is that it requires Members to be in a particular physical place when meeting and when voting as Members of Parliament. That has been a barrier to exercising the required degree of parliamentary scrutiny so we are trying to look to the future to see what arrangements we might make.

I wish to ask Lord Sumption about what he said with regard to the health Act and specifically what he said on ongoing parliamentary scrutinyvis-à-vis the health Act. Would he like to elaborate further on that? We will have a number of other witnesses who will speak to that point later.