Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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Let me ask again. I am interested in hearing people's views on this across the panel. There is an expectation, certainly from the Minister, that this bit of the process will be the shorter bit. What I am actually hearing from the witnesses is that if we do not give an adequate amount of time to tease out all these issues, we could end up with a Bill with as many problems as positives. There are positives in the Bill; there is no doubt about that. Would the witnesses be urging our committee - not to delay the process, because none of us wants to delay it - to make sure there is adequate scrutiny both of the provisions we have in front of us and the provisions, which will be quite lengthy, that we will see in the final Bill and that are still bring drafted? What is their ask of us as a committee in terms of the amount of time to get this right rather than to get it through?