Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Then I have two specific questions. Whenever I hear a Minister of State telling me he or she is remaining true to the spirit of the original amendment and that the alternative amendment is to clarify it and is technical in nature, there is just that little bit of me, that is, the sceptic, who wants some reassurance on the transference from the wording agreed by Senators, in their wisdom, to what the Minister of State is proposing. What is different? What has possibly been left out or added?

I am going to ask the Minister of State to tell me, in as plain English as is humanly possible given the technical nature of the amendment, to what extent is the wording here comparable to the Seanad wording. Is there anything in the drafting of that wording that, on advice from his officials, the Minister of State has decided to leave out? I know there was quite a lot of conversation in the Seanad on its amendment No. 2, which concerned issues of carbon sequestration, pollination, etc.

There is a real desire to make sure the Minister of State's wording captures all of that so that it is not just carbon sequestration through, not environmental types of projects but very specific kinds of environmental projects. Some additional clarity on that would be helpful.

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