Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I understand that but moving to regulation - I apologise for cutting across Ms Ward, I know it is awkward on Teams - effectively would move it out of the realm of the Oireachtas where it would benefit greatly from that level of scrutiny. It is not a massive item of legislation and would not take a great deal of time to draft. It is important we would have regular engagement on this because it is an area that is open to abuse and where abuse was uncovered previously. It is also an area where there could be a serious issue with regard to workers' rights and so on. It would not be a deeply onerous task to debate this legislation as and when required. That flexibility could be there by maintaining it as part of the legislation and not necessarily moving it into regulation, which would take it out of our hands and would mean we would not get the opportunity to regularly debate it.