The Bill provides that the Arts Council be reduced from 17 to 13 members. It is proposed to introduce a system of rolling membership, whereby half of the ordinary members of the council will change every 30 months, rather than having the possibility of the membership being changed in its entirety every five years. In the course of the passage of the Bill through the Dáil it emerged that there is a technical gap in the text of the Bill, in that it does not specify the length of time for which the chairperson of the council will be appointed. Accordingly, on Committee Stage I will propose an amendment to correct this.