Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 27 November 2012

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage

7:25 pm

Photo of James ReillyJames Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 17:


In page 22, to delete lines 33 to 52 and in page 23, to delete lines 1 and 2 and substitute the following:“(4) For the purposes of this Act--
(a) a relevant contract which provides health insurance cover for--
(i) not more than 66 per cent of the full cost for hospital charges in a private hospital, or
(ii) not more than the prescribed minimum payments within the meaning of the Health Insurance Act 1994 (Minimum Benefit) Regulations 1996 (S.I. No. 83 of 1996),
whichever is the greater, is a relevant contract which provides for non-advanced cover, and
(b) any other relevant contract is a relevant contract which provides for advanced cover,and references in this Act to 'non-advanced cover' and 'advanced cover' shall be construed accordingly.”.

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