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

I move amendment No. 75:

In page 48, line 29, to delete “the respect” and substitute “respect”.

These amendments are general clarifications of language and some corrections of errors in the sections dealing with specific sanctions, including section 15AA, on administrative financial sanctions; section 15AB, on the calculation of administrative financial sanctions; section 15AD on periodic penalty payments; and section 15AE, on Commitments.

Amendment No. 76 clarifies how an administrative financial sanction can be imposed on a related undertaking to ensure the company structure of that undertaking does not prevent a proportionate, effective and dissuasive sanction being imposed upon the undertaking or those in control of the undertaking and that the sanction will be capable of being paid.

Amendment No. 83 is intended to expand the matters that should not prejudice an adjudication officer in deciding to impose a periodic penalty payment on an undertaking in order to compel that undertaking to comply with certain aspects of an investigation. This more fully reflect the various types of sanctions that can be imposed on an undertaking.