Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 July 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

General Scheme of Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Pre-legislative Scrutiny

2:00 pm

Mr. William Beausang:

There is a specific legislative reason for that. We cannot legislate for those bodies but in the scheme of things, it is a comprehensive coverage, as we have outlined when running through the relevant head. I take the Deputy's point. The Judiciary is excluded, as are the North-South bodies, but the policy intention, as I reflect on it, is not to exclude any other significant group. We went through the head and it had a wide coverage. If there are gaps in the coverage, the Minister would be keen to address them in the further development of the legislation.

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