Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 169:

In page 71, to delete lines 8 and 9.

The holder of a MAC must apply to MARA for approval to amend the MAC if he or she so wishes.

Section 83(2) provides that "...the Minister may by regulations specify classes of amendments to a MAC that are, for the purposes of this section, non-material amendments." Then, section 83(3)(a) states: "that the amendments which fall within the class should be trivial, insignificant, minor or inconsequential". It is difficult to see an amendment that might be classified as "trivial, insignificant, minor or inconsequential". I wonder, therefore, why the Minister should be given the ability to do that when the amendment is of that description. What test is there for that and what classes could they be?