Tom Parlon (Laois-Offaly, Progressive Democrats)

This amendment proposes to amend subsection (13) of section 51. Section 51 deals with locating people and identifying or locating property. Subsection (13) deals with the transmission of documentation to the ICC and provides for the transmission to the ICC of any material obtained under this section in accordance with the directions of the Minister etc.

The Minister had agreed to consider this on the basis of replacing "shall" with "may" in the first line. However, having consulted the parliamentary counsel, he is satisfied that such an amendment is neither desirable nor necessary and that the provisions of section 51(2)(b) are sufficient to cover the circumstances envisaged by the proposed amendment. Therefore, I do not propose to accept the amendment.

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