Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Some parts of this have been made somewhat redundant, by the previous amendments that were passed. The concern is that this three-quarter threshold, which is an appropriately high threshold for these decisions, might not be applied to all of the extensions that might be made consequentially in this Act. Now that the threshold has been lowered, the bar has dipped backwards. This was a concern around ensuring the consistency of an exceptionally high standard. That exceptionally high standard no longer applies, unfortunately. There are still concerns in relation to section 9A, which I also enumerated.