Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 84:

In page 129, after line 9, to insert the following: “Regulations

146.(1) The Minister may make regulations for the general purpose of this Act and may, by regulation, provide for any matter referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed.

(2) Every regulation under this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the regulation is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House has sat after the regulation is laid before it, the regulation shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under the regulation.

(3) Regulations under this Act may contain such incidental, supplementary and consequential provisions as appear to the Minister to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the regulations.”.

This amendment was dealt with by the proposal the Minister of State brought forward with regard to same-day voting on the islands. I am happy to withdraw the amendment, which is based on Deputy Ó Cuív's Private Member's Bill.