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

Is the Minister of State in a position to share even some of the preliminary thinking on what that is? In some sense, the Minister of State is asking the committee to accept a significant change, which is from substantial commencement or substantial works, notwithstanding the legal ambiguity of that. Could the Minister of State not just, for example, introduce regulations to stipulate exactly what substantial works are? In some sense, this is not really about providing clarity because the clarity is done by way of regulations.