Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome that, because that is what my amendment sought to do. However, the section the Minister is amending is in respect of the qualifying expenditure to a number of contractors, but subsection 3(a) on page 10 states, inter alia, the following:

Subject to the provisions of this section, where an individual (in this section referred to as ‘the claimant’), on making a claim in that behalf, proves that in a year of assessment he or she has made a payment or payments to a qualifying contractor in respect of qualifying expenditure to which this section applies...

Where the Minister is tabling amendment No.12 to allow for a number of contractors, he needs to include contractors in this subsection. This subsection talks about the individual paying a contractor.