Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 48:

In page 44, subsection (1), lines 5 and 6, to delete "voluntary body" and substitute "person".

Part 8 of the Bill sets out the procedures the agency must use when arranging for services to be provided by a variety of service providers making grants for the purpose of providing services. The effect of amendments Nos. 48, 51 and 53 to 56, inclusive, will be to bring greater clarity to the persons to whom assistance may be given under section 59 for the purposes of providing a service supplemental to services provided by the agency.

The amendments will clarify that persons who provide, or propose to provide, otherwise than for profit, services supplemental to services provided by the agency, may receive a grant or contribution in kind from the agency. The amendments will delete references to "voluntary body" and replace them with "person". This change is consistent with the definition of "person" in the Interpretation Act 2005, section 18 of which provides a "person" shall be read as importing a body corporate, whether a corporation aggregate or a corporation sole, and an unincorporated body of persons as well as an individual and that the subsequent use of any pronoun in place of the further use of the word "person" shall be read accordingly.