Seanad debates
Tuesday, 6 July 2004
Commissions of Investigation Bill 2003: Committee Stage.
4:00 pm
Brian Hayes (Fine Gael)
This section relates to membership. One of our tribunals has three members and this was done to ensure that a number of investigations could take place at the same time. One could have three modules of the tribunal working at the same time, but that has not happened. Is it possible under subsection (2), which states that each member of a commission is to be appointed by the specified Minister or the Government of the time, that one could have two or three members of a commission established? Will they all be sole members or will there be two or three members? Is it possible that one could have a number of matters dealt with by one commission as against three or four separate commissions?
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