Gerard Craughwell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy mentioned the fox looking after the henhouse. We spent two and a half years on the Air Navigation and Transport Bill before we finally got the Minister to agree that the people who wrote the legislation were the people we were trying to regulate. If we are going through pre-legislative scrutiny, I do not want the marine accident investigation Bill to come to the Seanad and be held up for two and a half years. I would have difficulty in finding people to support me in that. Passing legislation that is wrong is the worst possible thing we could do. I have deep concerns about putting a time limit on it or asking us to scrutinise the legislation without access to the Captain Clinch report, etc. Unless we have all the information, I believe this committee should refuse to carry out pre-legislative scrutiny.