Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

I move amendment No. 103:

In page 53, between lines 42 and 43, to insert the following:

"(4) A person who is being interviewed under subsection (3)(k) or section 73 may, if he or she requests——

(a) where the person is a member of the staff of the railway undertaking or a person engaged by the undertaking, be accompanied——

(i) by one other member of the staff of the railway undertaking, or of the person engaged by the undertaking,

(ii) by one other person from an organisation which represents, as the case may be, the staff of the undertaking or the person engaged by the undertaking, or

(iii) at his or her own expense, by a legal or other adviser,

or

(b) where the person is not a member of the staff of the railway undertaking or a person engaged by the undertaking, be accompanied, at his or her own expense, by a legal of other adviser.

(5) The sole function of a person permitted to accompany another person in accordance with subsection (4) shall be the provision of advice to the person being interviewed.

(6) A person permitted to accompany another person in accordance with subsection (4) shall, if directed by the inspector concerned, desist from doing anything which, in the opinion of the inspector, frustrates the orderly and efficient conduct of the interview.".

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