Malcolm Noonan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 6:

In page 17, line 2, to delete "a member" and substitute "an ordinary member".

Government amendments Nos. 6 to 11, inclusive, clarify, for the avoidance of doubt, that certain terms and conditions set out in section 10, which relate to the length of terms office, reappointments and resignations, apply only to the commission's ordinary members.

This is because such matters do not apply to ex officio members by their very nature. Provisions relating to the chairperson are set out separately in section 18.

Amendments Nos. 12 to 16, inclusive, are technical drafting amendments that allow for amendment No. 17, which I will speak to separately given it is not part of this grouping.