Seanad debates
Thursday, 30 January 2003
Immigration Bill, 2002: Committee Stage (Resumed).
Amendment No. 23 goes on to set out in some detail the management powers of the chair of the tribunal. The relevant paragraphs in the amendment are paragraphs 13 to 20, and I will give a brief commentary on each. Proposed paragraph 13 simply restates the current paragraph 13. Proposed paragraph 14 makes clear the chairman's function in ensuring that the tribunal's business is carried out fairly and efficiently at all levels, including the throughput of cases of the other members of the tribunal to which cases have been assigned. It gives a management function to the chair of the tribunal to make sure they are evenly assigned where that is appropriate or assigned to avoid backlogs where that is appropriate.
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