Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 41:

In page 50, to delete lines 35 to 37 and substitute the following: “(d) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (2A):

“(2A) The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs may, if he or she believes on reasonable grounds that—

(a) there may be a serious risk of the kind mentioned in paragraph (a)(i) of subsection (1), notwithstanding that such a risk may also exist elsewhere in those services,

(b) the risk may be the result of any act, failure to act or negligence mentioned in paragraph (b)(ii), (iv), (vi) or (viii) of subsection (1), and

(c) an investigation may be in the interests of—

(i) improving the safety, quality and standards of the services described in section 8(1)(b) or (1)(ba) which are the subject of the investigation, or

(ii) the provision of health and personal social services for the benefit of the health and welfare of the public, require the Authority to undertake an investigation in accordance with this section.”,”