Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 101:

In page 46, before section 46, to insert the following new section:46.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Part, on or after the coming into operation of this Part, where a person wishes to make a complaint that a legal practitioner has, by act or omission, been guilty of misconduct, the complaint shall be made to the Authority.
(2) Subsection (1) shall not act to prevent the Authority or a person who is aggrieved by the act or omission of a legal practitioner seeking assistance from a person with a view to resolving the matter to which a complaint relates.
(3) In reckoning any period of time for the purposes of any limitation period in relation to the making of an application for adjudication of a bill of costs under Part 9 which bill of costs is or has been the subject of a complaint under this Part, the period beginning on the making of a complaint to the Authority and ending 2 months after the complaint is determined under this Part shall be disregarded.”.