Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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Okay, let me tease this out. Here we have a general provision that will allow any future Minister, by way of secondary legislation, to change or modify any provision of this legislation. The Minister of State has told the committee that this would then have to be regularised by the Oireachtas through primary legislation but there is no legal requirement to do that in this Bill. On what basis is the Minister of State saying that it would have to be regularised through primary legislation?