Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Amendment No. 8 is a technical drafting amendment. On Report Stage in the Seanad the text of subsection 57D(b) of the principal Act was amended to remove any doubt that the Public Appointments Service must always consider any collective agreement on mobility or redeployment in the context of the broader redeployment policy of the Minister. This amendment adjusts the changed subsection slightly by substituting the word "that" with "the pay" to take account of the earlier amendment.

Amendment No. 9 replaces a reference to the 1977 amendment of section 13 of the Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Act 1938 to take account of the more recent amendment of that section in 2011. The latter amendment defines the Leader of the House in Seanad Éireann as a holder of ministerial office for the purposes of the Act. The clarifying amendment has no impact on section 57E(d) of the principal Act, as amended by this Bill.