Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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The point is that it is consistent and compatible. That is a more proactive approach and the Minister of State should consider it. His point is that the rest of amendment No. 115 is unnecessary and already covered. I think that is what he is saying and we will consider his comments on that.

However, the particular phraseology of "does not contravene" is definitely minimalist wording. I repeat the point made earlier that we have been guilty of a minimalist approach and we have been caught out badly on it. There has to be a proactive approach to achieving the objectives of directives. Directives are not just guarding against doing bad stuff; they are also trying to set out to achieve things that we are quite short of achieving in many areas of environmental endeavour. It is a reasonable consideration to change that wording and I ask the Minister of State to reflect on that aspect of amendment No. 115.