Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

Again, where a scheme is to be amended, a new scheme will have to be submitted in its place. If that new scheme is approved by the Minister, it will then be laid before the Oireachtas. The amended scheme will become the scheme and the existing section 2(8) will then apply to it as the scheme.

I reiterate that I do not believe I should be too prescriptive in legislation about the format of the scheme. It should be allowed to evolve and we should not have to return to the Oireachtas time and again to change it.