Seanad debates

Wednesday, 3 December 2008

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed)

 

1:00 pm

Photo of Michael FinneranMichael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)

These amendments delete subsections that provide for a matter to be prescribed in situations where the section already provides for that matter to be prescribed. Thus, section 21(2) provides for the Minister to prescribe the form of a summary of social housing assessment when section 21(1) refers to the prescribed form of the summary. Similarly, section 43(1)(i) provides for the Minister to prescribe a date when section 43(1) refers to the date as may be prescribed. Under section 3, the Minister is empowered to make regulations prescribing any matter referred in the Act as prescribed. The second reference to "prescribed" in both sections 21 and 43 are unnecessary and, therefore, I propose to delete them.

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