Defence (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2021-10-20
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Alice-Mary Higgins (IND), National University of Ireland

I move amendment No. 4:
In page 12, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following:
“Amendment of section 3 of Act of 2006
17. Section 3 of the Act of 2006 is amended—
(a) in subsection (1)(a) by the substitution of “an” for “any”, and
(b) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (2):
“(3) In exercising its functions under subsection (1)(a), the Government shall only approve secondment of a contingent or member of the Permanent Defence Force to an international organisation which is not the United Nations or part of an International United Nations Force, where such a secondment is for the purposes specified in subsection (1)(f).”.”.

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