Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 8:

In page 15, to delete lines 13 to 26.

Some concern was expressed by stakeholders that the procedures involved section 15G(2) on the conduct of certain investigations was overly complex and put a large administrative burden on authorised officers submitting written reports on an investigation.

Section 15L outlines the detailed information and material that is required to be included in the "statement of objections" which an authorised officer submits to an adjudication officer when referring an investigation for decision. In order to reduce the administrative burden on authorised officers conducting investigations into potential infringements of competition law, it was considered that the additional written report provided for in section 15G(2) was unnecessary.

Amendments Nos. 9 and 10 are consequential to that deletion, being a renumbering of the remaining subsection and deletion of subsection (4) which refers to the report in subsection (2).