Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 134:

In page 48, lines 25 and 26, to delete “the day-to-day running of the MARA and”.

This amendment more precisely defines the role of the board in respect of governance and oversight and the delegation of its functions. The text as initiated might have been misconstrued so as to mean that the MARA governance board is a case level decision-making structure in the model of An Bord Pleanála. That is not the case, this board is a governance board.

Amendment No. 136 is a technical drafting amendment which broadens the potential scope of the work of the sub-committees to all of MARA's functions, including the engagement of specific sectoral expertise and advice on specific functions. The text as initiated was unintentionally limited to the functions of the board and, as mentioned earlier, our ambitions are far greater.