Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 15:

In page 10, lines 5 to 9, to delete all words from and including “(inserted” in line 5 down to and including “1977)” in line 9 and substitute the following:

“(amended by section 11 of the Ministerial, Parliamentary and Judicial Offices and Oireachtas Members (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2001)”.

This is another technical amendment which replaces a reference to a 1977 amendment of section 13 of the Minister and Parliamentary Officers Act 1938 to take account of the more recent amendment to that section in 2001. The latter amendment defines the Leader of the House in Seanad Éireann as a holder of ministerial office for the purposes of that Act. The clarifying amendment has no impact on section 57E.

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