Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

To summarise, the points have been made on the policy statement, the guidelines and the directives. The Minister of State's response, essentially, is to say that this is dealt with in section 31, and that our concerns around the public consultation, the screening for strategic environmental assessments, SEAs, and the compliance with all of the relevant directives are dealt with in section 31. There is no point in repeating ourselves, but I believe that we need to look to see if we are completely happy that it is all covered off under section 31. That is probably the job we have to do between now and Report Stage.