Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I move amendment No. 4:

In page 6, to delete lines 25 to 28.

There was a rather odd provision that the chief executive of the NTMA would not be permitted to express any opinion on what the Government did. In committee I drew a distinction, stating that it would be an understandable restriction to ban him or her from commenting publicly. However, it would be too restrictive to prevent the chief executive from expressing an opinion to the Government. That is taking matters too far and I asked the Minister to reconsider the section. I felt that he saw some merit in what I was attempting to achieve through my amendment. I had hoped that he might have an amendment of his own on the matter.

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