Sean Barrett (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 283:

In page 124, line 35, after "may" to insert "not".

Amendment No. 283 expresses concern about the fact the authority can waive educational qualifications by regulation. The Bill states people may be exempted from additional requirements to attend a course of education or training, sit and pass an examination or serve a period of apprenticeship or pupilage. If solicitors want to become barristers or barristers want to become solicitors they should take the examinations, pursue the courses and have the period of apprenticeship. We want to raise the standard, I presume, rather than give exceptions of this kind.