Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 86:

In page 21, after line 41, to insert the following:

"PART 4

CO-DECISION-MAKING AGREEMENTS

Definitions

13.In this Part—

"appointer" means a co-decision-maker appointer;

"co-decision-maker", in relation to an appointer, means the suitable person who the appointer appoints under section 14, to jointly make with the appointer decisions on the appointer's personal welfare or property and affairs, or both, in compliance with this Part and regulations made under section 27;

"co-decision-making agreement" means a co-decision-making agreement referred to in section 14(3)as such agreement is in force from time to time;

"co-decision-maker appointer" means a person who appoints under section 14 a suitable person to jointly make with the first-mentioned person decisions on the first-mentioned person's personal welfare or property and affairs, or both, in compliance with this Part and regulations made under section 27;

"Register" means the register established and maintained by the Director in accordance with section 21;

"suitable" shall be construed in accordance with section 14(2).".