Deputy Seán Fleming:

I move amendment No. 49:

In page 9, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following:

“7. (1)Where a designated public official is lobbied outside of the State, (in a manner to which section 5would apply had the lobbying activities occurred within the State) such public official shall be obliged to register the fact that he or she had been so
lobbied and the public official shall provide the necessary information to the Standards in Public Office Commission for inclusion in the register.
(2) Provision for maintaining this category of information shall be kept in such form as the Commission consider appropriate.”.

I will discuss amendments No. 49 and 50 together. They are different but not unconnected. There is scope for additional clarity in the Bill. I accept it is probably a difficult area to deal with, but where a designated public official is lobbied outside the State in a manner in which section 5 would apply had the lobbying activities occurred within the State, such public officials would be obliged-----