Ivana Bacik (Independent) | Oireachtas source

These amendments are mostly very much technical in terms of replacing references to authorised officer with international protection officer, which seems sensible, but the Leader, Senator Maurice Cummins, and I have raised as an issue the practice of so many technical amendments being inserted on Committee Stage to a Bill published a week previously. It is unfortunate we must do so and that it was not published with references to the international protection officer. Most colleagues would agree that international protection officer appears to be a better term. I have no difficulty with the substance of the amendments, it is just the timing.