Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 12:

In page 30, to delete all words from and including “paragraph” in line 3 down to and including “land,” in line 5 and substitute the following:

“paragraph 21 (inserted by the Water Services Act 2014):

“22. Any land,”.

These are simply technical amendments to renumber a paragraph and update the citation. Since the Bill was passed in the Seanad, there has been an amendment to Schedule 4 of the Valuation Act 2001 by the Water Services Act 2014, to insert a new paragraph 21. Therefore, the new paragraph that this Bill is inserting, to exempt not-for-profit child care, will now be paragraph 22. I know Deputy Fleming is excited by the word "water", but the amendment simply renumbers the paragraphs.

I will go through this again. Since the Bill was passed in the Seanad, there was an amendment to Schedule 4 of the Valuation Act 2001 by the Water Services Act 2014. This amendment inserts a new paragraph 21. As a result of the insertion of the new paragraph, the exemption in regard to not-for-profit child care now needs to be renumbered as paragraph 22. The citation is being updated to reflect that amendment by the Water Services Act, in terms of the renumbering, and also that we are now in 2015. Therefore, the Acts will be cited together as the Valuation Acts 2001-2015.