Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I have a question on a very technical issue. Earlier, we voted not to accept an amendment to increase the membership of the commission to 17, so we are going with the original legislation, which set out a membership of 13 and how that 13 will be arrived at. We have now just passed an amendment stating the President of the Circuit Court, the President of the District Court and the Attorney General will be included in the numbers. However, there must also be six lay people. We cannot describe these three as lay people. How, technically legally, will the amendment we have just agreed be put into law or enacted?

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