Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

The purpose of these amendments is to ensure the authority has sufficient power to make regulations where necessary under the Bill. The first amendment extends the authority's regulation making powers to enable it to attach conditions to particular classes of licences. The second amendment empowers the authority to make regulations which set out the extent to which the employer's professional indemnity insurance must cover licensees who are employees and principal officers.

Amendment agreed to.

Government amendment No. 66:

In page 85, subsection (1)(e), line 32, after "insurance" to insert the following:

"(including, in the case of licensees who are property services employers, the extent to which such indemnity covers principal officers and employees of property service employers who provide property services in their capacity as such principal officers or employees, as the case may be)".

Amendment agreed to.