Paul Coghlan (Fine Gael)

): Government amendment No. 72 has been already discussed with amendment No. 71.

Government amendment No. 72:

In page 106, to delete lines 28 and 29, and substitute the following:

"28. Sittings of the Appeal Board shall be held otherwise than in public unless—

(a) the Authority, the appellant or, if paragraph 18 is applicable, the other party to the complaint makes a request in writing to the Appeal Board that the sittings (or a part thereof) in respect of the appeal concerned be held in public and states in the request the reasons for the request, and

(b) the Appeal Board, after considering the request (in particular, the reasons for the request), is satisfied that it would be appropriate to comply with the request.".

Amendment agreed to.

Schedule 5, as amended, agreed to.

Schedule 6 agreed to.

SCHEDULE 7.