Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

Thank you very much. Amendment No. 1 is one of a series of technical amendments relating to how the National Roads Authority is referred to in the Bill. Current drafting preference is to shorten any multi-word title of a body, if it appears in several places in a Bill. We did that with CIE and the Railway Procurement Agency, RPA. This amendment inserts a definition of "National Roads Authority" as "NRA" into section 2. The other amendments grouped with this amendment, Nos. 57 and 73 to 81, inclusive, merely replace "National Roads Authority" with "NRA" wherever it is mentioned in the Bill.