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

Covid is an obvious one. There is simply no way timelines could have been kept. Who gets to decide? For example, let us say I was a chief executive, I was particularly bad at my job and I just did not manage the process properly. Therefore, times were not kept for bad reasons as opposed to something specific like Covid. This provision, even with the new wording, does not specify criteria for why timelines should or should not be met. It is just that if they are not met, you cannot be challenged on that grounds, even if they were not met for bad reasons rather than good reasons like a public health emergency.