Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 24 October 2013
Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs
Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed)
5:05 pm
Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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I move amendment No. 50:
This amendment is about ensuring an element of transparency in how contracts are awarded to voluntary bodies. The amendment would ensure openness and transparency. The voluntary sector plays a pivotal role in this area and it is only right and proper there is transparency in how Government funding is awarded to these bodies. The amendment would do just this.
In page 44, subsection (4), to delete lines 15 to 17 and substitute the following:"(4) The Agency may make arrangements, decided by an independent panel established by the Agency in accordance with specified criteria, including the imposition of requirements on a voluntary body, as it considers appropriate to monitor--".