Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is always the small phrases in the legislation that are important. In Professor Crowe's responses to Deputy Cian O'Callaghan, the issue arose about how explicit our domestic legislation needs to be versus either current or emerging legal requirements under EU law or international obligations. Given that we spent a fair amount of time in this committee dealing with issues of EU enforcement actions against the State on a whole variety of environmental legislation in particular and failure to transcribe or impose, in Professor Crowe's view would it be helpful that the legislation should be as explicit as possible? Even though things might be required under international or European law, the more explicit the legislation is here, then the greater clarity everybody has in terms of what this legislation is meant to achieve.

Does he think that would be helpful or does he think if the international requirements are strong enough we should be okay on the day?