Tony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)

Amendments Nos. 2 to 4, inclusive, are technical. Under some sections, such as section 66(7), pertaining to an appeal against an improvement notice, and section 67(7), pertaining to an appeal against a prohibition notice, it will be necessary to prescribe the procedures and forms of order for cases in the District Court. These are matters that will be prescribed by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. These procedural matters should be prescribed by way of rules of court and not by regulations and this is the reason for these technical amendments.

Amendment Nos. 2 and 3 refer to "by regulations made" and amendment No. 4 seeks the insertion of the words "by rules made". All these amendments have the same effect.