Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

No disrespect to anybody, but all legislation was subject to a fairly rigorous test. Before anybody signed off on it, there had to be a declaration by the experts appointed to assess the degree to which it impacted Irish law, people's rights and so forth. Not until that was done could the legislation be signed off on. To be fair to the members of that committee, they did their job and went beyond it on many occasions to poke the bear, as it were, to a great extent.