Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This was originally in the Schedule to the Bill but is now brought up front in a new section 3 following drafting advice from the Office of Parliamentary Counsel. I have tabled another amendment to delete the Schedule and section 5 of the Bill which refers to the Schedule. In respect of other items in the Schedule, I advise the House that there is no need for a new definition of the Minister as the functions were transferred from the Minister for Communications to the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht by virtue of SI 332 of 1996. Similarly, there is no need to delete the definition of commissioners or to substitute Waterways Ireland for the commissioners as the functions vested in the commissioners under the Canals Act 1986 transferred to the Minister by virtue of SI 332 of 1996 and transferred to Waterways Ireland by virtue of the British-Irish Agreement Act 1999.

Basically, there was a Schedule at the end of the Bill but we are now moving part of the information to a new part. We are getting rid of it and moving some of it to another part.