Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

There are references in a number of other Acts and statutory instruments to the Director of Consumer Affairs or the Office of the Director of Consumer Affairs which would require amendment to take account of the fact that the director and the office are to be replaced by the National Consumer Agency. These amendments are set out in the proposed new Schedule 3 while the new section 40 proposed by this amendment provides the necessary underpinning in the main part of the Bill. The amendments set out in Schedule 3 to the various enactments specified there provide only for the substitution of the National Consumer Agency for the Director of Consumer Affairs or the Office of the Director of Consumer Affairs and have no other effect on the provisions concerned. It is a technical amendment.