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Meetings and business of Authority
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130. (1) The Authority shall hold such and so many meetings as may be necessary for the performance of its functions, including meetings with the Garda Commissioner and the Director.
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(2) The chairperson of the Authority shall fix the date, time and place of the first meeting of the Authority.
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(3) The chairperson of the Authority may call a meeting of the Authority at any reasonable time.
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(4) Subject to subsection (5), the Authority may, where it considers it appropriate to do so, permit—
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(a) members of the public to attend, and
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(b) the media to record and broadcast,
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a meeting or part of a meeting of the Authority.
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(5) Members of the public may attend, and the media shall be permitted to record and broadcast, not fewer than 4 meetings of the Authority with the Garda Commissioner in each year.
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(6) The Authority may publish such of the following as it considers appropriate:
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(a) agendas for meetings of the Authority and meetings of committees of the Authority;
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(b) the documents relating to those meetings;
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(c) reports of those meetings.
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(7) At a meeting of the Authority—
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(a) the chairperson of the Authority shall, where present, chair the meeting, or
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(b) where and so long as the chairperson of the Authority is not present or if that office is vacant, the other members of the Authority who are present shall choose one of their number to chair the meeting.
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(8) The quorum for a meeting of the Authority shall—
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(a) where subsection (7)(b) applies, be 4 ordinary members and the member chosen under that subsection to chair the meeting, and
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(b) in any other case, be 4 ordinary members and the chairperson of the Authority.
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(9) Each member of the Authority present at a meeting of the Authority shall have a vote.
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(10) Every question at a meeting of the Authority on which a vote is required shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the members of the Authority present and voting on the question and, in the case of an equal division of votes, the chairperson of the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.
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(11) In addition to a meeting with all participants physically present, the Authority may hold or continue a meeting by the use of any means of communication by which all the participants can hear and be heard at the same time (in this section referred to as a “remote meeting”).
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(12) A member of the Authority who participates in a remote meeting is taken for all purposes to have been present at the meeting.
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(13) Subject to this Act, the Authority may determine its own procedures.
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