Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Again, respectfully, this is a policy decision. The role of the chief deciding officer is to oversee the implementation of the scheme and oversee, in an independent way, the adjudication of each individual application and make sure that is done in an appropriate way. A decision on the addition of a new institution could have the consequence of significantly broadening the scheme. If the proposed institution met the criteria set out in section 50, then that is what should be done but that is a policy decision.