If the amendment to amendment No. 23 was accepted, the guidelines would be transformed from the status of simple guidelines to quasi-statutory instruments. Requiring the approval of the Houses of the Oireachtas would transform them from one category of instrument into another. It is better that they be left amendable and flexible because the whole purpose of this innovation is to introduce day-to-day consistency and enable the chairperson to deal very quickly with unforeseen difficulties or difficulties of interpretation of previous guidelines. We do not want to arrive at a position in which the Houses of the Oireachtas must be involved every time some question of doubt arises as to the intention of the chairperson or the collective view of the members of the tribunal expressed at one of its meetings.