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

I move amendment No. 2:

In page 10, subsection (1), line 1, to delete “columns (1) and (2)” and substitute “columns (2) and (3)”.

Amendments Nos. 2 and 3 are technical amendments which arise as a result of replacing the existing Schedule 1 with a new Schedule 1. When published, the Bill provided for the repeal of all the Vocational Education Acts. However, vocational education committees are also referred to in other legislation and, as a result, the original Schedule has been expanded to provide for the repeal of a small number of provisions of non-VEC Acts which contain a reference to VECs and are no longer considered relevant. This is provided for in amendment No. 77.

As the new table has an extra column, amendments Nos. 2 and 3 are needed to ensure the references to the columns in the new table are correct.