Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 68:

In page 47, subsection (1)(b), lines 3 and 4, to delete “hold an unestablished position as” and substitute “become and be”.

These amendments remove the reference to a fixed-term employee who is transferred on establishment day holding “an unestablished position”. This is not a phrase that tends to be used in the education sector. The overall thrust of the provision, whereby an employee's fixed-term contract is unaffected by the creation of the new bodies and that the balance of the period of any contract carries through to their new employer, remains in place. This is a clarifying amendment and I commend it to the House.