David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

This is particularly obnoxious because it uses the word "shall", rather than "may". I would have less objection to it if it provided that the procedures committee "may avail itself of the advice and expertise of any consultants or advisers". Who are these people? They are not members of the commission. They are defined as any "person, consultant or adviser", which could be anybody. It could be any one of the 4 million or 5 million citizens of the State. The final line of subsection (8), which refers to not enabling "the person, consultant or adviser, for the purpose of performance by the Commission of that function, to do any other thing (other than a thing which facilitates such performance)", is completely opaque. What in the name of God is that about? Can somebody explain that to me because it is not English? We have heard much recently about legislation being accessible to the public and written in simple, plain, basic English. That is surely not simple, plain, basic English.