Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)

I move amendment No. 16:

In page 9, subsection (1)(a)(iv), line 7, to delete "sanctioning" and substitute "sanctioning or approval".

This is a technical amendment that relates to the sanctioning of expenses incurred in the administration of any statute. It provides for both the sanctioning and approval of such expenses as opposed to just their sanctioning as referred to in the Bill as published. This is to capture the function of the approval of expenditure referred to in some of the statutes.

Amendment No. 18 is also a technical amendment. It provides for the tidying up of the text of the subsection, although the meaning of the provision is unchanged.

Amendment No. 22 is another technical amendment. It clarifies the Minister's involvement in any pending legal proceedings concerning functions transferred by the Bill, to which the Minister for Finance was a party prior to the appointed day.

Amendment No. 24 is a further technical amendment. It provides for greater clarity and specificity regarding the definition of "year", that is. the financial year, rather than the calendar year. This provides for consistency throughout the Bill as "financial year" is referred to sections 6 and 15.

Amendments Nos. 26 and 27 are also technical amendments. Amendment No. 26 provides for the inclusion of the collective citation for the Presidential Establishment Acts in section 16(4), as it would be inappropriate to insert it in Part 2 of Schedule 3. Amendment No. 27 provides that the reference to "enactment" in section 16(4)(b) be substituted for "those Acts apply or that enactment" to ensure both the Presidential Establishment Acts and Part 2 of Schedule 3 are encompassed by the subsection.

Amendment No. 84 is also a technical amendment to insert a comma in the section.

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