Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 67:

In page 21, to delete lines 37 to 41 and in page 22, to delete lines 1 to 12 and substitute the following:“(8) The Minister may, without prejudice to the generality of section 29(1), make regulations under this subsection for the publication of the notice referred to in subsection (3), that is required to be carried out before an application for the grant of an employment permit referred to in subsection (1) is made, to provide for—

(a) one or more persons with whom such notice shall be placed for publication on a website referred to in subsection (4)(a)(ii) where such person or persons own or operate the website or publish notices on such website,
(b) one or more websites, referred to in subsection (4)(a)(ii), on which such notice is to be published,
(c) the duration of the period, referred to in subsection (4)(c), for which such notice shall be published—

(i) in a newspaper referred to in subsection (4),
(ii) on a website referred to in subsection (4)(a)(ii) which shall be not less than 14 days, and
(iii) on a website referred to in subsection (4)(a)(iii),
which the Minister considers to be sufficient to afford an opportunity to citizens and the foreign nationals referred to in subsection (3)(ii) to apply for the employment concerned,

(d) the publication referred to in subsection (4)(d) of such notice, including the period for the publication of such notice, and different provision may be made for different classes of publication for any such notice including publication by electronic means and different provision may be made for such publication of the offer of
employment to citizens and foreign nationals referred to in subsection (3)(ii),
(e) the form, procedure for and the manner in which the publication of the offer of employment, referred to in subsection (2), to citizens and foreign nationals referred to in subsection (3)(ii) is to be made,
(f) the number of days within which the application referred to in subsection (1) shall be made after the first day the notice referred to in subsection (3) has been published on a website referred to in subsection (4)(a)(ii),
(g) information and documents as the Minister may require to satisfy himself or herself that the notice was published in accordance with this section and the application was made within the period referred
to in subsection (4) and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing such information and documents may include—

(i) information and documents demonstrating that the notice was placed with the persons specified by the Minister in regulations under that section, and
(ii) documents identifying that the notice was published in a newspaper and a website as required under that section,
and

(h) evidence that the Minister may reasonably require in order to verify any information or documents to be furnished to the Minister pursuant to this section.”.