Alex White (Dublin South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I am sorry. I was misdirecting myself. I did not have a note in front of me in respect of this amendment. When Deputy Shortall was making her submission, I was trying to listen to what she was saying, and I was also attempting to take some instructions. I read the wrong note, so I am a little bit thrown by this. I do not mean any disrespect to the Chair, to Deputy Shortall or to the House.

Section 20 (5) states that the Minister "shall arrange for a report laid before both Houses of the Oireachtas in accordance with subsection (1)to be published in such form and manner as he or she thinks appropriate as soon as practicable after copies of the report are so laid". It is a purely technical amendment that corrects a mistake in the text of the Bill. This is a proposal simply to delete subsection (1) and replace it with a reference to subsection (4). This was always the intention of the Minister, but it was incorrectly drafted in the version that was actually circulated.

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