Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We dealt with the matter on Committee Stage. Writing captures the aim of the Deputy. It might seem like a simple thing for him to include "or electronically".

The word "writing" is defined in Part 1 of the Schedule to the Interpretation Act 2005 and it includes printing, typewriting, lithography, photography, and other modes of representing or reproducing words in visible form, and any information kept in a non-legible form, whether stored electronically or otherwise, which is capable by any means of being reproduced in a legible form. To be comprehensive the word "writing" must remain because it is captured so exhaustively in the Interpretation Act.

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