Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

This is a fairly straightforward section to delete paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) in section 16 and substitute the following paragraphs: (b) the Minister for Finance; (c) the Equality Authority; (d) the Human Rights Commission, (e) the Standards in Public Office Commission and (f) the Ombudsman Commission. It is to expand the number of people who should be consulted in the context of the process whereby the code of ethics is drafted. Effectively, the Standards in Public Office Commission is being added and paragraph (e), which refers to any other person etc., is being deleted from it.