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

For me, it is not the principle; it is the mechanism and the process. I fully support the idea of national policy guidelines. I also believe in regional and local guidelines. When the County and City Managers Association and some of its members came before us, their concern related to the process of transposition and how that works. This is because what we have seen with some of the section 28 guidelines is that you can have a policy at this level but how that is applied appropriately and successfully at local level is not as straight forward. Scrutiny on the part of an Oireachtas committee like ours might be of value in filtering out some of that.

I have eaten into the Chair's time. I will stop now and come back in later.