Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

This amendment inserts three new subsections into section 63 to provide that where the authority receives a complaint about an employee or a principal officer it can also investigate the property services employer and vice versa. This amendment also provides that the same powers will be available to the authority where it carries out an investigation on its own initiative.

Amendment agreed to.

Section 63, as amended, agreed to.

SECTION 64.

Government amendment No. 60:

In page 65, subsection (18), line 19, to delete ", or all the licences,".

Amendment agreed to.

Section 64, as amended, agreed to.

Sections 65 to 74, inclusive, agreed to.

SECTION 75.

Government amendment No. 61:

In page 74, subsection (4)(a), line 39, to delete "€5,000,000" and substitute "€2,000,000".