Seán Power (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)

Amendments Nos. 1 and 4 to 8, inclusive, are technical drafting amendments. An amendment was needed to the citation in section 1(5) to reflect that the Bill would now be enacted in 2006. Amendments Nos. 4 to 8, inclusive, were made to remove subparagraphs (s) and (t) of section 11 from the Bill. These subparagraphs are a duplication of two subparagraphs already in the Irish Medicines Board Act 1995 by virtue of two European Community regulations. Account was not taken of this in the drafting of the Bill, so it is necessary to correct the anomaly by way of technical amendments.