Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

This amendment stands at the request of the Standards in Public Office Commission which contacted my office and asked for it. The Ethics in Public Office Act 1995 provides the commission with authority to delegate its functions to staff of the commission. The commission is strongly of the view that to avoid any possibility of future legal challenges the question of its powers of delegation should be put beyond doubt by including a delegation provision in the Bill, and this is what I am minded to do.