Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)

Amendment No. 15 deletes references to the Children Acts Advisory Board, CAAB, as contained in the Child Care Act 1991. It is required in the context of the dissolution of the CAAB, which is provided for in Part 6 of the Bill. It has been decided in the context of the need to rationalise State agencies and in accordance with Government policy to dissolve the CAAB and to subsume many of its functions into my Department. The amendment ensures that there will be no meaningless sections remaining in the Child Care Act 1991, as amended, following the dissolution of the CAAB.