Joanna Tuffy (Labour)

I move amendment No. 2:

In page 10, before section 4, to insert the following new section:

"4.—Every order or regulation made by the Minister pursuant to this Act shall be laid before both Houses of the Oireachtas and, if a resolution annulling the regulation or order is passed within the next twenty-one days after the House has sat following such laying, the order or regulation shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to anything previously done thereunder.".

The purpose of this amendment is to provide the standard provision for accountability to the Oireachtas. A number of powers to make regulations do not involve the laying of regulations before the Dáil or Seanad, for example, sections 106 and 107 regarding organisation and discipline of the Garda Síochána, and we feel this provision is necessary in the Bill.