Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I am substituting amendment No. 21, as submitted to Committee Stage on 4 October, to make a technical amendment to update the lettering of paragraphs (f) and (e) in the amended section 5 of the principal Act. The paragraph itself is a technical amendment which provides that the Ombudsman shall not investigate an action taken before the date on which a public body became subject to the Ombudsman's remit or taken on a date on which the public body concerned was otherwise not subject to review. It is simply ensuring that we cannot go backwards from the date that it is commenced.