Derek McDowell (Labour)

These two amendments relate to section 11 of the Bill, which deals with membership of the authority. During discussions in the Dáil, I accepted a proposal to delete the subsection which provided that a member of the authority could only serve two terms of office. The argument that this could lead to the loss of expertise in the authority was well made and I had no difficulty in accepting this proposal.

I proposed an amendment to subsection (13) —