Paschal Mooney (Fianna Fail)

I would again be grateful for the Minister of State's clarification on this. I was of the opinion that because the issue of validation arose on Second Stage, the Minister of State went quite a long distance in explaining the reasons. Am I correct in saying that apart from section 2, it also formed the core of the Bill in that it relates to the validation of certain statutory instruments? Irrespective of and despite my earlier comments about the processes of statutory instruments, this Bill is essentially about where statutory instruments are implemented because there is an obligation on the Government under primary legislation already in place to give effect to what would be the obligations of our membership, for example, in respect of indictable offences and maximum fines. That is, essentially, what this section is about. I would again be grateful for the Minister of State's clarification.