Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 28:

In page 27, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “(5) The Commissioner shall designate one or more than one member of staff (in this section referred to as a ‘designated person’) to be responsible for handling reports and, in particular, for providing any person with information on the procedures for making a report in the manner specified in section 7.”.

This is a set of technical amendments to section 10B, as inserted by section 14 of the Bill, to clarify the meaning of a “designated person” in this section. Subsections (1)(a) and (5) of section 10B make reference to “designated persons” but do not define what these are. As "designated persons” are also referred to and defined in sections 10C and 10D, without this clarification there is the possibility of confusion arising as regards who is a “designated person” under each of these sections. Amendment No. 28 provides for the insertion of this definition of a designated person into section 10B. The remaining amendments are of a technical nature to address consequential changes to numbering and cross-references to “designated persons” in the Bill.