Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour) | Oireachtas source

This is a technical amendment, tabled on the advice of the advisory council. Section 25 of the Bill deals with the regulation of passengers in SPSVs. The amendment removes paragraph (b) of the offences under section 25(6) concerning compliance with subsection 25(2). The offence, as it relates to paragraph (b) of the latter subsection, creates an overlap with an offence already under section 21(9) for non-payment of a fare. The remaining matters in paragraph (a) of subsection 25(2) alone concerning compliance with the code of passenger conduct or a reasonable request of a driver would not warrant maintaining the offence under paragraph (b) of subsection 25(6). In other words, we need to deal with duplication in the amendment.