Liz McManus (Wicklow, Labour)

I am suspicious at the idea of meetings of an important authority being conducted by telephone. We should stick with the old ways. If there is an emergency meeting that must be conducted by telephone, must every person on the authority be contacted and able to participate? Only a quorum is necessary for a meeting. I would be uncomfortable that a meeting could be held using the quorum to validate it if the meeting was being conducted by telephone.

The amendments that are grouped together are supposed to relate to each other. When the Leas-Cheann Comhairle announced this group, he stated that the amendments are related but there is no relationship between amendment No. 22, which concerns disclosure, and amendments Nos. 20 and 81.

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