Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The dilemma seems to be that in most of the frameworks we are trying to address, be they related to land use, river catchment or whatever system we are trying to examine, we do not have the tools under the present model and cannot offer a price or reward for the sort of thing we want to change. In saying the taxonomy will incrementally address this matter, will we have missed the opportunity to take a bigger step back? Does the Department, since it is very much the framework Department through which everyone thinks about these issues, need to recast its approach to some of the systems we need to shift?