Victor Boyhan (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Ms Sheridan makes an important point. She may wish to echo it in the further detailed submission to be made by the RIAI to the Department. It is an important point in the context of data and duplication. We need to hear more on it and tease it out further.

I wish to raise several issues with Dr. Logue. He referred to the options of prescribed bodies and expanding that array of prescribed bodies. It is a wonderful idea. I ask him to flesh it out.

I am familiar with the Granada Convention, which is an important instrument. In fact, the Granada Convention and the Aarhus Convention were included as preambles to the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown county development plan at my request. I pushed them in. I suggest that they should be included in the preamble to the Bill. We should be adhering to them in all circumstances. Is it a good and strong recommendation to the committee that the Aarhus Convention and the Granada Convention should be embedded in their broadest meaning in the preamble in terms of setting out clearly the objectives of the legislation?