Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 35:

In page 42, line 33, after “Board” to insert “, in partnership with SOLAS and the National Training Fund,”

This is a fairly simple amendment. Section 39 deals with continuing professional development. It states, "The Board shall establish and maintain a system of continuing professional development of providers of building works". It makes sense to me for the board to do that in partnership with the existing bodies that are involved in the provision of training for construction industry professionals, such as SOLAS or the National Training Fund. I accept my list might be too short or too prescriptive, but requiring the board to have some kind of a relationship with other providers of what is in many instances continuing professional development makes sense. There might be a more elegant way of wording this amendment but I think members get the principle of what I am trying to do.