Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for appearing today. We are doing pre-legislative scrutiny on the Bill and I do not think there is any dispute as to the motivation or intention behind it. However, as legislators we need to check it out and see what the Department says in respect of it. The Bill is obviously based on the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act 2018, which amended the NTMA Act 2014 by putting in a new section 49(a). What was the advice within the Department with respect to the Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016, when it was originally introduced, I think, by Deputy Pringle? Did it express concerns as concerns have been expressed here with respect to that Bill?