Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 63:

In page 31, to delete lines 4 to 18 and substitute the following: “(4) The licensing authority shall establish and maintain a programme (in this Act referred to as the “tutor new entrant programme”) for the purposes of an application under this section and shall appoint suitably qualified examiners to conduct any examinations that may form part of the tutor new entrant programme.

(5) The Minister shall, following consultation with—

(a) the licensing authority,

(b) the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment,

(c) the Health and Safety Authority,

(d) the Construction Industry Registration Body,

(e) such representatives of the construction sector as the Minister considers appropriate, and

(f) such other persons as the Minister considers appropriate,

prescribe the requirements, including requirements as to the form and content, of the tutor new entrant programme and any training, courses or examinations to be successfully taken for the purposes of that programme.

(6) For the purposes of subsection (1)(e), an applicant may furnish to the licensing authority evidence of having successfully completed any training or course or having passed any examination in another Member State or third country and where the licensing authority is satisfied that such training, course or examination, as the case may be is, in its opinion, equivalent to the tutor new entrant programme or any training, course or examination prescribed for the purposes of that programme, it shall accept evidence of the successful completion of that course or training or the successful passing of that examination, as the case may be, in lieu of successful completion of the programme, training, course or examination, as the case may be, prescribed under subsection (5).”.