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

The Minister of State misunderstands the amendment because, in fact, it is not exclusive. It states that it "shall include", but "shall include" means other things can be included. It does not state "shall only be" or "shall only include". That is the first point.

The second point is that in some sense, it is not that we are trying to list the documents but we want to ensure that certain really important information is provided and, therefore, this is actually listing the types of information. We had very detailed discussions yesterday about the inadequacy, in our view, of only having NPF reviews after the second census rather than after every census.

There are also issues, and we had some discussion yesterday, about the need for information around measuring and monitoring, for example, biodiversity loss or impact on the environment. First of all, it is not the case that this would limit the prescribed documents to only certain categories of document. The Minister of State will do that with regulations and this does not get in the way of that. However, it is saying that these two clusters of information are of such importance that they need to be stipulated in the legislation to ensure they are absolutely considered in the context of the review.