Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Could I make a suggestion? I am sure the Chair would not disagree with it at this stage, given what has come to pass today. In the letter that I am proposing we write to the Minister, I suggest we insist that she seeks a waiver to allow for prelegislative scrutiny in order not to be so bluntly dismissive of the work of this committee and of all the stakeholders who took time to make submissions and come before this committee to share with us their concerns or add whatever they thought would benefit the legislation in terms of their ideas, etc. It would be totally dismissive and nothing short of sheer arrogance not to do so. Could we write to the Minister asking her to seek that waiver to allow for the prelegislative scrutiny? Otherwise, it might as well be the Minister’s Bill, with no involvement of this committee and no taking on board of what stakeholders have said. She would find it very hard to get support for that Bill in such circumstances.