Sean Barrett (Independent) | Oireachtas source

An exclusion is specified in the Bill, as it stands. If our amendments were accepted, the Minister, as a Member of the Oireachtas, would continue to receive all the reports. Long may that continue.Environmental matters are everyone's concern and not a private matter for the Minister. I hope he will share the information with all Members of the Oireachtas as widely and as generously as possible, as is his nature. What is wrong with the other 165 Members of the Dáil and 60 Members of the Seanad that the advisory council would not send the reports to them as well? I do not wish to press the amendment but rather explain why we tabled it. Nothing excludes the Minister but the other 225 people around Leinster House should be involved given the environment affects so many people.