Frank Fahey (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

Since Committee Stage, I have consulted the parliamentary counsel's office and I have taken into account the recommendations made by the Law Reform Commission in 2000 regarding the use of plain language in legislative drafting, which promotes the use of the active voice. The text as drafted is in accordance with these recommendations and uses the active voice and future tense, rather than the present tense as proposed by the amendment. This is the style used in the Bill so I will not accept the amendments.

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