David Norris (Independent)

On a point of clarification, in my copy of the Bill line 48 reads, "appointed by the board and who are to be ...". The amendment reads: "to delete "to be" and substitute ", or are to be". I do not understand this. Is it the intention to delete the word "and" and insert "or"? The Bill reads, "... who are to be ..." and the Minister is proposing to insert "or are to be". The verb "to be" is included twice. It seems confusing, or it might just be my stupidity. The Minister proposes to delete the words "to be" and insert "or are to be", but they are already included in the Bill. This is confusing because phonetically "or" and "are" sound the same. I apologise to the Minister.