Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

Section 41 requires licensees to notify the authority of any conviction for an offence or any proceedings pending. Amendment No. 44 will exclude offences prescribed by the authority from this requirement. Amendment No. 67 will limit the power of the authority to prescribe offences for the purposes of section 41. It can only exclude offences which are not relevant to the provisions of a property service. The purpose of the amendments is to permit exclusions of less serious offences which do not affect a person's fitness to provide a property service from the notification requirements.