Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)

This amendment seeks to limit the services that the Minister may consider when deciding on the establishment of a body. Any services to be provided for by the new bodies will have to be contemplated by the Oireachtas under the new subsection (9). Therefore the description of services at subsection (9)(a) to (k) is sufficiently comprehensive and encompasses any services now performed by the existing agencies, and any services likely to be provided by an amalgamation or reorganisation of existing bodies, or indeed the establishment of new bodies under the legislation.

I suggest therefore that the amendment is not required and I do not propose to accept it.