Ms Oonagh Buckley:

I suspect not, Deputy, because you can more effectively deal with it through things like codes of conduct and disciplinary codes, which can deal with the detail of what is a request about a performance or a request about an improvement of quality as opposed to a request to say, we do not like your opinion so change your opinion. There is a tension between making sure that planners have good performance standards and work to them with what could be interpreted as something that is in breach of the code. My personal view is that those things are better dealt with in codes and disciplinary codes. Obviously, once again depending on the way things play out, it may be something that the Department and the Minister will choose to cover in the Bill or that the committee could choose to recommend.