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

This is largely a technical amendment to transfer the provisions in subsections (1) to (6) from schedule 3 of the 2001 Act, as amended by this Bill, into a new section 43A. This new section 43A sets outs separately the relevant provisions of the Bill relating to the use and assessment of vetting disclosure by a panel undertaking an inquiry under section 43.In addition to the provisions which were previously in Schedule 3, additional provisions in subsections 7 and 8 of this new section makes clear that a panel may also consider information in a vetting disclosure where the council has made a complaint, under the relevant provisions of section 42, in respect of that information, and that the panel can consider information in that disclosure only in so far as it grounds that complaint and relates to the conduct which is the subject of the complaint. It also allows the panel to consider any submissions that the teacher may have made in respect of that vetting disclosure.