Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

It is quite constrained. Ministers have powers to do lots of things but they are within strict parameters. I have no doubt that whoever is Minister for Education and Skills will exercise his or her powers responsibly, but he or she will have to exercise them within the parameters of the legislation. We make lots of legislation across many areas where Ministers have powers, but they have to exercise them within the legislative and constitutional situation in which they operate.

To clarify, amendment No. 8 is the relevant one for that issue.