Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will speak to amendments Nos. 3, 4, 15 to 18, inclusive, 21 and 49 to 55, inclusive. These are minor technical and drafting amendments. Amendments No. 3 and 4 to sections 23 and 25 aim to ensure a consistency of language across various sections. Amendments No. 15 to 18, inclusive, and 21 to existing sections 65 and 66 are of a technical drafting nature and there is no change to the substantive provisions therein. The collective citation of the Affordable Housing Acts has been relocated to section 1. Amendments No. 49 to 53, inclusive, and 55 to the chapeaus to the modifications of sections of the Local Government Act 2001 set out in Schedule 3 are to ensure a consistency of language throughout that Schedule. Amendment No. 54 is also a technical amendment to Schedule 3. It makes a minor edit to the modification to section 174(7)(e) which provides for the mandatory reporting of a breach of ethics by a member of Limerick City and County Council who is not the príomh chomhairleoir or the mayor. In this circumstance, the ethics registrar brings the breach to the attention of the príomh chomhairleoir, the mayor and the director general. Previously this paragraph specified a breach of ethics by a member of Limerick City and County Council excluding the príomh chomhairleoir and in error did not also exclude the mayor. Paragraph (bb) already deals with reporting requirements where the breach is by the mayor.

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