David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister and his officials and I am thankful for the presentation. I would like to pick up on what Deputy O'Reilly mentioned about the proposed CSDDD. We had a hearing on this issue. We had representatives from the Irish Coalition for Business and Human Rights, ICBHR, with us at one stage. That organisation has presented us all with an interesting set of questions which the committee could pass on to the Minister to get his observations on them. It might be useful to do so. The ICBHR has some concerns with respect to how this directive is going from its perspective. On the other hand, businesses here are very concerned about the responsibilities this directive will impose on them. They have told us it is like Brexit No. 2, and we know what Brexit No. 1 was like. They are very concerned about this issue. I would like to know what the Department is doing with businesses to prepare them for the arrival of this new directive, which is the other side of the equation in this regard.