Paddy Burke (Fine Gael)

Amendments Nos. 1,2 and 5 are related and may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Government amendment No. 1:

In page 4, to delete lines 14 to 17 and substitute the following:

" "holding area officer" means—

(a) a governor, or a member of the Garda Síochána, in whose temporary custody a person is placed under section 6,

(b) a person who assumes the duties of a holding area officer under section 11(6),

(c) a member in charge who assumes the powers and functions of a holding area officer under paragraph (a) of section 11(7), or

(d) a member of the Garda Síochána to whom the powers and functions referred to in paragraph (c) are transferred under paragraph (b) of section 11(7);".