Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This is not an amendment I would lose sleep over. It is more that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform does not have a specific role in a gift being received. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has conveyed this view to us. It provides administrative efficiency instead of having to go through two departmental processes. There are other provisions in the Bill whereby there are many things I cannot do without the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. This is merely that if there is good news for the sector in terms of something coming in we do not need the Minister of Public Expenditure and Reform to consent to it because there is no expenditure cost to the State.