Ms Áine Flynn:

It would just be useful if they were of general application. They apply only to interveners as within that narrow definition. It is open to, for example, a solicitor dealing with somebody who has a question mark over his or her decision-making capacity to say those guiding principles are interesting but that they are over there and the solicitor is never an intervener because he or she do not fit within that definition. There will be codes of practice for them, largely informed by those guiding principles, that will help but my view is it might have been useful if the guiding principles had a broader remit.