When I was cut off by the bell last week I was trying to drag the attention of the House back to the specific wording of my amendment, because I feel it is a distinct improvement on the first subparagraph of section 10 (3). I was drawing attention to the extraordinary role given to the director in the council. For example, the council, apparently, and the Minister mentioned this in his reply to my amendment, shall have no option but to consider any proposal made to it by the director whether or not he is in a minority of one in relation to the proposal he is making. This is an extraordinary position in which to put any council. It could produce a situation theoretically—I do not want to stretch it too far—in which the director could effectively hamstring the operations of the council by insisting on the observance of this subsection at all times. I find it extraordinary that we should have anything in the Bill about the director beyond the fact that the council should have a director because the plain, ordinary understanding of the function of a director is that he does what the council tells him and that he has charge of the day-to-day operation of the council within the general parameters of policy as laid down by the council. That is true as it ought to be of every director and council. So, when we see special functions and special roles being written into this Bill for the director, we have to ask why. I invite the Minister to comment specifically on the terms of my amendment:
The Director shall be responsible to the Council and shall implement its policy and decisions.
It says here "decision" but, with the agreement of the House, I should like to make that "decisions". I believe a simple misprint is responsible. I cannot think of anything clearer than this. If it were accepted it would involve, certainly, the deletion of (3) (a) of section 10 and I believe it makes subparagraphs (b) and (c) equally irrelevant. On the Report Stage I hope to make this point more directly. The whole problem can be solved if the Minister accepts this very simple amendment, which goes to the heart of the matter and makes clear what precisely the role of the director is and ought to be.