Thomas Pringle (Donegal South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

-----there are no principles or policies laid down. This amendment provides that the Oireachtas makes a decision. That is the body vested with the power under the Constitution to make laws within the State. There is an assumption that if the Oireachtas decided to add a substance to it, that is consideration under the Act and that is the policy and principle as decided by the Oireachtas, as the Legislature, rather than by the Department as an Executive body.

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