Denis O'Donovan (Fianna Fail)

I too wish to be fair.

I refer to section 18(9)(a): "As soon as practicable after the transfer day, the relevant port company shall prepare, in such form as may be approved by the Minister, all proper and usual accounts of money received or expended by the relevant harbour commissioners in the accounting year, or the part of an accounting year, of those commissioners ending immediately before the transfer day." That is being done. Section 18(9)(b) states: "The relevant port company shall submit accounts prepared under this subsection to an auditor for audit under subsection (2) of section 27 as if they were accounts kept for the purposes of that section and the other provisions of the said subsection (2) shall apply to those accounts." Section 18(10) states: "Notwithstanding the repeal of the Harbours Act 1976 under section 19 of the Harbours (Amendment) Act 2008, the functions, duties an powers in relation to Castletownbere Fishery Harbour Centres conferred on the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by the Fishery Harbour Centres Act 1968 continue to be exercised by that Minister of the Government." At least Castletownbere will be left on its own.

Section 18(2) states:

The Principal Act is amended —

(a) in section 87, by inserting the following subsection after subsection (2):

"(3) The making of an order under this section is in lieu of making an order under section 87A(2) or 88(2) in respect of the harbour concerned.",

This is the gist of section 18.

Before I sit down although I have not completed my contribution——