Gerard Craughwell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 2:

In page 7, to delete lines 17 to 20 and substitute the following:

“(a) by the substitution of the following for the definition of “public office holder”:

“ ‘public office holder’ means a member of the European Parliament for a constituency in the State, being a member who is in receipt of the salary specified in section 2(2) of the European Parliament (Irish Constituency Members) Act 2009;”,

and

(b) by the deletion of the definition of “public body”.”.

The Minister knows where this amendment is coming from. It concerns class K PRSI which I asked the Minister about when he was in the House on Second Stage. We should treat everybody who was paying class K in the same way. That includes members of the judiciary and the Oireachtas. I will not labour the point.