Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Seanad Éireann — 2022-05-24
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Alice-Mary Higgins (IND), National University of Ireland

I move amendment No. 30:
In page 14, line 36, to delete “in respect of which” and substitute “regardless of whether”.
This amendment is around the insertion of additional institutions. I am slightly widening the provision by replacing "in respect of which" with "regardless of whether" a public body has or had a regulatory or inspection function. The Minister's powers to add an additional institution should not be constrained by whether a public body had a regulatory or inspection function. There may be institutions the Minister deems appropriate to add even though they did not have that function.
I am concerned that there is at present a constraint on the Minister's powers in respect of the addition of institutions. Our amendment would widen it out.

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Sitting date: 2022-05-24