Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)

I move amendment No. 4:

In page 6, after line 32, to insert the following:

“Amendment of section 21 of Act of 1992 6. (1) Section 21 of the Act of 1992 is amended—

(a) in subsection (13)(b), by the substitution of “the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation,” for “the Government”, and

(b) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (16):

“(16) The Director General may be removed from office by the Minister if, in the Minister’s opinion, the Director General has become incapable through ill-health of effectively performing the duties of the office, or for stated misbehaviour, or if the removal appears to the Minister to be necessary or desirable for the effective performance by the Agency of its functions.”.

(2) The amendment effected by subsection (1)(b) shall only apply in relation to a Director General of the Environmental Protection Agency appointed or reappointed after the coming into operation of that subsection.”.