Seanad debates
Thursday, 30 January 2003
Immigration Bill, 2002: Committee Stage (Resumed).
Senators will note that the provisions regarding the commissioner's management functions are not anything like as extensive in the amendment related to the commissioner as they are in the amendment related to the chairperson of the tribunal. The simple explanation for this is that much of the detail specified for the tribunal chair is already set out either expressly or by implication in the existing provisions of the Act relating to the commissioner's functions. It is also noteworthy that the relationship between the commissioner and her staff is quite different in nature from that between the tribunal chair and the other independent members of the tribunal. I commend the amendments to the House.
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