Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It strikes me that there is an absence of the oversight we would like to see the authority having, particularly the part that says the Minister can direct the Commissioner in regard to amending the plan. That would raise eyebrows and is a departure from what we expected to see in legislation like this, which is about modernising and moving to a different type of policing from what we had in the past.