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

This amendment to subsection (1) of section 30 is required so as to clarify that an inspector, acting on foot of a direction of the Labour Court, may enter any premises belonging to the employer named in the Labour Court's direction for the purpose of performing his or her statutory functions not only in relation to those premises but also, specifically, at the premises. Clearly, in respect of any such premises which is a private dwelling the inspector will first have to have obtained a warrant pursuant to section to section 27(3).