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

Yes, but there have been failures to transpose and failures to comply with directives. We have suffered big fines and there have been big oversights with respect to real things that have happened in the real world. There were subsequent acknowledgements we messed up and failed to comply. Some of these issues are outstanding. This is not a small matter. I understand the marine spatial planning framework directive is referred to in the Schedule. I get that. Let us say we concede the Minister of State is correct - I am not saying we are at this stage but we hear him - and there is no need to repeat endlessly the need to comply with everything as it is covered anyway. We are asking why, if it is all covered in section 31, would the Government not have that list once in section 31, which includes the reference to the other directives alongside the ones it has put in there, namely those on birds and habitats. That is a fair question.