Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

To be helpful, with regard to PLS, ordinarily what happens is the Department would come in but the committee would also invite others to come in to give views on it. As this is legislation of great importance, it would not be unusual, for example, for the Environmental Protection Agency or the Sustainable Water Network, SWAN - who look after advocacy for water - or whomever, to attend. The idea is that the Department would first give a briefing on the Bill, then the NGOs, industry or experts, etc., would attend to try to inform us. If we are doing PLS on this legislation, we will need a list of people that we will invite in to do this.