Pat Gallagher (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

While there are many amendments here, a thread runs through them. They form a package of technical measures designed to make the legislation operate more efficiently. After the publication of the Bill, departmental officials consulted widely on it, as the Minister indicated on Second Stage, particularly with local authority engineers. We are, therefore, making changes of an engineering nature. These amendments have nothing to do with policy, they are technical in nature and I hope the House will accept them.