Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 23:

In page 12, between lines 37 and 38, to insert the following:“(2) An appeals committee shall, by notice in writing, inform the Minister where it decides in accordance with subsection (1) to refuse to hear or determine, or to refuse to continue to hear or determine, an appeal under section 29.

(3) A notice under subsection (2) shall include the committee’s reasons for refusing to hear or determine, or refusing to continue to hear or determine, the appeal concerned.

(4) The Minister shall, as soon as practicable after he or she receives a notice under subsection (2), forward the applicant and the board a copy of the decision of the appeals committee and the reasons for its decision.”.

Amendment No. 23 provides that a section 29 appeals committee shall be required to inform the Minister in writing where it decides to refuse to hear or determine, or to refuse to continue to hear or determine, an appeal. It also provides that the committee must provide the Minister with the reasons for such a decision and that the Minister must forward the appellant a copy of that decision and the reasons set out by the committee. Amendments Nos. 24 to 27, inclusive,are consequential numbering amendments arising from amendment No. 23.

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