Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I ask the officials in the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel to ensure all the definitions are set out at the beginning of each Bill. That will ensure a person who is looking at a Bill can see how the subject of the Bill is defined. It should be easy to specify in the opening section of a Bill the definitions that are of relevance to the various sections of that Bill. Such an approach would be better than the approach that is currently taken. In the case of a large Bill, it is impossible to find the definition one is looking for. It is a lazy old practice. It probably takes a little more organisation to put the definitions in an earlier section. I ask the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel to do that.

We have no problem with the Minister's amendment No. 2. Amendment No. 3, in my name, proposes that the title "vocational education committee" be changed to "education and training board". I am sure the Minister agrees with that.

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