Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Amendment No. 47 proposes to amend section 96 of the 2015 Act, making a minor amendment to the director's investigative powers to facilitate broader improvements to complaint mechanisms throughout the Act. Both this amendment and other amendments in this group seek to allow the director greater control over how to resolve investigations undertaken on his or her own initiative. These include extending powers to reviews of complaints. It will still be necessary for the director's procedures to be published to allow for transparency. However, this amendment facilitates other improvements to complaints provisions in the Bill.