Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputies and think that we all want to achieve the same thing here.

To follow on from Deputy O'Callaghan's amendment and the intervention by Deputy Ó Broin, I checked this very specific point with the Attorney General and his office. I want to be really clear on the record of the committee that it has been made abundantly clear that my amendment No. 142, which proposes to delete section 49(1)(a), does exactly what we want it to do. On foot of the correspondence we also received from the Local Authority Members Association and others about this matter, I specifically referenced that very point with the Attorney General and his office. It has been made abundantly clear that the amendment I have brought forward deals with this extensively. I hope I have clarified the matter for colleagues.