Tom Parlon (Laois-Offaly, Progressive Democrats)

This section deals with interference with the recruitment process and outlines the duty of licence holders, persons who are entitled to apply for a licence and recruitment agencies, to inform the CPSA that interference may have occurred. Subsection (1) places on those involved in a recruitment process a duty to inform the CPSA and the relevant licence holder of any interference or attempted interference with the process. Subsection (2) provides that where the CPSA is of the opinion that interference with the recruitment process may have occurred, it may investigate the matter or cause it to be investigated by a person appointed under section 15.