John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)

This is a drafting issue that my Department has taken up with the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel. The Roads Act 1920 and subsequent amendments to it, not all of which were contained in Roads Acts as some were in Finance Acts, were not cited together in the Roads Act 2007 which, if it were to have been done, would have been the appropriate place to have done it. The placement of a citation, as proposed, is not something that would normally be done in a Bill of a technical nature such as this. It would normally be done in a substantive Bill. I therefore regret that I cannot accept this amendment.