Mark Daly (Fianna Fail)
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My point is that the purpose of this committee is to ensure that all those draft statutory instruments would come to this committee and then this committee, as outlined in No. 8 in our terms of reference, would have the power to refer any proposed statutory instrument and associated documents to the relevant joint committee and to recommend to the committee that the proposed statutory instrument be further scrutinised. What I am saying is the process is that all the relevant statutory instrument would come to this committee, with the assistance of the Minister of State, and that as a matter of course they would be put in front of the relevant committee. It would not be a case of whether a committee would choose to do so. What we are asking, as well as all of the other elements of this process that we are working through, is that the draft statutory instrument, as Senator McDowell outlined, would be made available to this committee in advance of it being signed into law, again making sure that we meet the deadline.