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

I hear the Minister of State's argument that section 31 covers off all of our concerns, and this then applies to all of the things we have talked about including the statements, the directives, the guidelines. I see that we are coming up to another aspect which is a "direction". It should be very interesting to debate what is the difference between a directive and a direction, but we will move on to that one. The Minister of State's argument is to repeat these endlessly for each different stage and step and part of this process. I do not quite see why the Minister of State used the word "inoperable". The Minister of State might just say "unnecessary". I am not quite sure how the amendment would make the Bill inoperable. Perhaps the Minister of State will explain why it makes it inoperable. Surely the Minister of State is saying that it is not necessary because it is all covered under section 31. If everything we are looking for is under section 31, it is there already and what we are proposing is superfluous. This is what I thought I heard the Minister of State saying and now-----