Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)

Amendments Nos. 1 and 2 are technical amendments to section 3(a) of the Bill arising, in the case of amendment No. 1, from a clerical drafting error in the alignment of text and the omission of the wording in the definition of discrimination inserted into the Act of 1998 by the Equal Status Act 2000. The first amendment realigns lines 26 to 28 to restore their application to both paragraphs (a) and (b) of the definition of "contract of employment".

The second amendment re-inserts the wording necessary to bring discrimination prohibited by the Equal Status Act within the remit of the Equality Authority. The additional wording to this definition as provided for in section 3 of the Equality Bill will be retained.