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

I am genuinely open to this question. Given the highly and increasingly technical nature of planning law, both development plans and State-wide plans, the increasing technical complexity of EU environmental law, the proliferation of legal judgments both at a European Court of Justice level and a domestic level, that is a lot information. There is now climate law. There are carbon budgets and a range of other things. Even in the personal opinions of the witnesses, because they were not necessarily anticipating this coming before the committee, how does one strike the balance between judges and-or ancillary staff sufficiently conversant with the complexity of that with the benefit of having people who are not necessarily always involved in that and bring other things to bear? How does one manage that? Is it that there is a list which has some people who are predominantly on it and some who are infrequently on it? I know no system is perfect.