Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I have queried the procedure where I propose to withdraw amendment No. 70.

Amendment No. 71 provides that where there are consultations, a record would be kept and that such record would include the rationale by which the commission deemed the person to be appropriate to consult with. Here, again, I have used the language that such record should be deposited with the Minister and laid before both Houses of the Oireachtas. I would appreciate it if in his reply the Minister of State would focus not on the piece that the record be deposited with the Minister and laid before both Houses of the Oireachtas but on the core issue. The Minister of State did not respond in regard to the core issue in my previous set of amendments, the core issue being the principle that a record of consultation should be kept and that such a record would include the rationale whereby a commission decided that a person should be consulted with.