Michael Ahern (Cork East, Fianna Fail)

Group 4 consists of amendments Nos. 1, 3 to 8, inclusive, and 30. The final group of amendments are drafting and technical amendments. Of those, amendment No. 4 was a Labour Party amendment which I accepted. In addition, amendments Nos. 6, 7 and 8 follow on amendments concerning the terms used in section 25 which were tabled by the Labour Party on Committee Stage. Following the advice of the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel, these amendments address the points raised by the Labour Party.