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

I thank the Chair and thank our guests for their detailed submissions. I will use my first slot to discuss matters with the Law Society and my second for Mr. Flynn.

This is the seventh meeting we have done on this complex draft Bill. The last four, including the material in our present guests' submissions, have raised substantial concerns regrading the draft Bill. Other members will rightly say that it is a draft, but in my seven years in the Oireachtas, whenever we have had detailed planning legislation, the final version as passed has rarely differed substantively from the draft or general scheme. I hope it is different with this one, but my experience tells me that is often not the way this process works. I invite Ms Minch to speak more about her concerns around the Bill's compatibility with both the Aarhus Convention and EU directives with respect to the standing. Where does she think we could end up in difficulty vis-à-visthe Aarhus Convention and EU environmental law?