Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Amendments Nos. 112 and 113 are intended to allow the Minister to make a temporary appointments to the office of deputy chairman of the Labour Court to fill a temporary vacancy that may arise in certain circumstances in that office. Such a vacancy may occur, for example, where an incumbent deputy chairman is unable to perform his or her duties for a period or dies or is removed from office.