Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I am trying to tease out concerns about the pre-planning or forward-planning stage.

Will the forward planning part be captured by this? If it is captured by this, will it be published only at the point of an authorisation at the end of the process? Is it transparent and publicly accessible in the database only at the very end? Will people be able to go onto the database to see, for example, that 15 early stage processes are taking place throughout the country? I totally appreciate that a lobbying register is a separate process. When people are engaging at the early stages will they be able to find it in the database? Will it be available to the public? Is it just at the end of the process that people will be able to find it in the database? There is a fair difference between these. Having this information publicly available and searchable at the end of the process is not as useful as being able to search it during the process.