Ms Nessa Childers:

We certainly were not the good boys with regard to some legislation on the environment such as the habitats directive and the water framework directive. I do not know where the "good boys" thing came from in that area. In other areas, it is how we transpose legislation, which is a national competence. It can be done in more or less difficult ways, but how it is done is the business of people over here. Surely, how it is transposed should be part of the Seanad oversight.

Some Members may have more experience on this issue. I have never been a national politician, God help me, so I do not actually know how this works in a detailed way, but perhaps some Members do.