Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Amendment No. 12 has been ruled out of order in accordance with Standing Order 156(3), because the Bill provides that a family income supplement payment can be stopped during a 52-week period due to a specified change of circumstances and if these circumstances change again, the payments can become payable at the rate which had been due to be paid at the beginning of the 52-week period. This amendment proposes that the rate payable on the recommencement of this 52-week period would be recalculated at the time the supplement recommences. This could result in a higher rate of supplement becoming payable which would involve a charge on the Exchequer.