Mr. Colm Forde:

I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach. I agree completely. We are in a fairly unprecedented space with these omnibus proposals. On foot of the competitiveness agenda and EU Council level, the Draghi report and the new EU Commission programme, they want to operate at speed to address the regulatory burden. To go back to Deputy Hayes's point, it is not about reducing regulation but streamlining and reducing admin burden. That is the focus. The clear direction from the Council in March was to do this as quickly as possible so the Leas-Chathaoirleach is right to say it is rushed. On the number of meetings at official level, I think we are already on the fourth compromised text. This is happening incredibly quickly at EU level. That is the clear political direction the Commission has been given by the EU Council. We referred earlier to the voting at the European Parliament on "stop the clock". There was an overwhelming majority in favour. I think there were 560 votes in favour with low double digits against so it is the clear political direction. At COMPET, the contribution from every member state is to get this done quickly and urgently. That is how it is operating.