Mary Fitzpatrick (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I like the idea of us not using our public committee time to do this pre-legislative investigation, so to speak, and of members hearing from the NGOs or other interested parties first and then having the Department come into us. If the committee needs to have a public meeting to deal with certain aspects of the pre-legislative process we can have it but this is our first time to engage in this process and it would be hugely beneficial to have an offline Teams or Zoom meeting in which we could be briefed on issues around the legislation prior to having to deliberate and come up with recommendations and changes that I would like to see in the legislation.