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

It is actually legal advice to the Attorney General so it is privileged.

On compliance with the Aarhus Convention and various EU directives, particularly environmental ones, we spent much time when we did substitute consent and all of those things kind of bemoaning the fact that at various stages either our transposition of or compliance with international or EU, particularly environmental, legal obligations was weak. That is why there have been so many EU enforcement actions against the State over the years and fines, etc. When crafting this important legislation, was there any specific exercise to determine its Aarhus Convention compliance and-or its compliance with some of those EU directives, EIA directives and others that we have had difficulty with in the past in terms of legal outworkings and challenges in the planning system?