Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 105:

In page 153, line 31, to delete “Minister” and substitute “Oireachtas”.

These are grouped together. While I am not sure where amendment No. 118 is, essentially it is the same idea, that is, that we and some other organisations want the police ombudsman to be directly accountable to the Oireachtas, as with other ombudsmen or ombudspersons, rather than to the Minister. These amendments delete various references to the Minister, replacing them with the Oireachtas as the body to which they need to be accountable.