I see the Minister is in attendance here now, so we will postpone the further consideration of Standing Orders and resume it when we have disposed of the Damage to Property Bill. The Seanad may recollect that when this Bill was in Committee under consideration here, certain amendments were inserted, some of them on the motion of the Minister in charge of the Bill and others on the motion of Senators. As regards some of them, it was stated at the time that, while accepting the amendment, the form of it might perhaps require adjustment, and I think to that is to be attributed the fact that these amendments have come back with certain amendments made to them in the Dáil. We have now to consider these amendments made in the Dáil.
The first amendment is as follows:— Section 10, Sub-Section (1) (ii.). To delete all the words after the word "that" in line 1, and to insert instead thereof the words:—
"Whenever a partial re-instatement condition is attached to a decree, the person by whom such condition is to be performed may, at any time within three months after the date of the decree, submit to the Judge a Scheme for the application of the compensation to which the condition is attached in or towards the erection of a building or buildings of a residential character at any specified place in Saorstát Éireann in lieu of the substituted building specified in the decree, and if the Judge is satisfied that the building or buildings specified in such Scheme will be suitable to the neighbourhood in which it is proposed to erect the same, and that there is a demand in that neighbourhood for buildings of that character, the Judge shall amend the partial re-instatement condition attached to his decree by substituting therein the building or buildings specified in such Scheme for the substituted building originally specified in the decree."