Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 38:

In page 19, to delete lines 10 to 12 and substitute the following:

"(8) Not more than 10 days after submitting a periodic review report to the Minister in accordance with this section, the Advisory Council shall publish the report by such means as the Agency may advise.".

This amendment is self-explanatory. A periodic review report should be published not more than ten days after it is given to the Minister. As a member of the Joint Committee on Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform, I am aware that the fiscal advisory council reports are published and are very useful documents in terms of breaking down all the different elements of the economy. I do not know whether it is required under the legislation to do that. Having something like that produced and a requirement that it be published within a specific timeframe is a very useful exercise in accountability. That is the logic of the amendment.