Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 1 July 2014
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance
National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage
8:20 pm
Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source
If I could make the Minister's case for him; according to other Bills we have dealt with, an instruction is temporal but one can change the context of the paragraph in the Bill by directions and orders. If one reads it through and puts those words into it, more so than using a verb, it creates a different action arising out of the section. Where the Minister may instruct, he is now into directing the Department. We will go through the amendment. That is not to say the Minister is correct or that Deputy Doherty has poorly drafted what he hopes to achieve but there is a material change to the Bill if the amendment were to be accepted.
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