Brendan Ryan (Labour)

I move amendment No. 21:

In page 18, subsection (2)(d), line 35, to delete "from" and substitute the following:

"one of whom shall be an elected member of a local authority in the GDA nominated by local authorities in the GDA acting jointly, and the others being".

I raised the issue when the Minister was in the House on the previous occasion that there is no public representative on the board of the GDA. I said I would table an amendment proposing at least one public representative on the board and this is what my amendment hopes to achieve. I ask that the Minister accept it.