Dáil debates
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
European Union Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages
6:00 pm
Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
It is because it is actually bracketed, and that is where the term "inserted" is normally used. Apparently, this is a drafting convention. Given some of the debates that we have had about minor changes in wording in the recent referendum, I have become very averse to changing words at all. The advice is very clear that the drafting convention, when referring in brackets to a provision that is either inserted or substituted by another enactment, is to use the term "inserted".
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