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

As the section 28 ministerial guidelines legislation was introduced in January 2016, 30-something is not a huge number.

Were the Minister to make the case that it would be too onerous, and maybe he is right,I would be open to having a position, not unlike EU scrutiny, where when a section 28 guideline in draft is published, the committee could be asked whether this was something it wanted to scrutinise. It could be that the committee would state it was fine with that because it has only been a small number of those section 28 ministerial guidelines that have caused us significant problems. I am recommending a softer version of this to deal with the Minister's issue but he does not seem to be willing to have any formal process at all.