Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

I move amendment No. 43:

In page 14, before section 21, to insert the following new section:

21.—Section 15 of the Seanad Electoral (University Members) Act 1937 is amended—

(a) in subsection (2), by—

(i) the substitution of "Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform" for "Minister for Finance", and

(ii) the substitution of "by the Minister for Finance, with the approval of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform," for "by the said Minister", and

(b) in subsection (3) (inserted by paragraph (c) of section 56 of the Act of 2001) by the insertion of "with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and" after "the Minister for Finance may,".

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