Ms Attracta U? Bhroin:

Oireachtas oversight is critically important but it needs to be more than just a motion and a debate. It needs to be some sort of proper scrutiny and evaluation. I will defer to Dr. Logue in respect of broader EU law obligations vis-à-visnational planning policy statements. These have enormous implications, as he alluded to earlier, in relation to cascading effects throughout the whole system and the need for participation and assessment of those planning policy statements is absolutely key to help to inform the Oireachtas in terms of its considerations. Democratic votes are important. We live in a democracy and no one Minister should have that type of power because the potential for things to go wrong is really serious.