Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 56:

In page 53, to delete lines 36 to 39, and in page 54, to delete lines 1 to 3 and substitute the following:“(c) the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (2):

“(2) (a) The Minister may designate a deputy chairman to perform the functions of the chairman in the absence of the chairman or where the office of chairman is vacant, and a deputy chairman so designated shall in such absence or upon such position becoming vacant perform those functions.
(b) References in any enactment shall, for the purposes of the performance of the functions of chairman by a deputy chairman designated under paragraph (a), include references to that deputy chairman.
(c) A person who, immediately before the commencement of section 77 of the Workplace Relations Act 2014, stood appointed under subsection (1) shall be deemed to have been designated under paragraph (a).”,

(d) the deletion of subsections (3) and (4), and”.