Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

I move amendment No. 18:

In page 19, line 16, after "fisheries" to insert "(including river and sea angling)".

These amendments concern the list of areas in which potential appointees to the board of Inland Fisheries Ireland must have had experience or shown capacity. Having taken on board the arguments put forward by Deputy Coveney on Committee Stage, I am pleased to include river and sea angling in the specified list of criteria. I am advised by the parliamentary draftsman that the appropriate way to include reference to these two activities is by way of the amendment I am proposing. Accordingly, while I cannot accept Deputy Coveney's amendment No. 19, I trust that my amendment will address his concerns.

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