Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The provisions in the section and across the legislation are there in terms of signing for documents. We have found across other legislation that somebody can refuse to sign. Somebody can give instructions to colleagues at work to refuse to sign, when they probably know there might a document coming their way. People can be conveniently be absent. It is always a challenge and section 8 is there to try to ringfence all of that.