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

The Minister did say that. I am sorry to labour this point, Chair, but I think you share an interest. The Minister gave a commitment when we pressed him on this that some kind of written guidance would be given to the local authority setting that out and that, in that, the requirement to involve particularly the elected members at some point, even when the derogation was being used, was the sensible thing to do.