Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 5:

In page 11, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following:"(2) The Minister shall, within 12 months of the enactment of this Part, take such steps as are necessary to prepare and publish, or cause to be prepared and published, an index that tracks, at quarterly intervals, the following:

(a) earnings in the nursing and care sectors, and such other sectors as appear to the Minister to be relevant to the indexation of PPOs;

(b) the costs of medical treatment in this jurisdiction;

(c) the cost of mechanical and other health aids and appliances in this jurisdiction;

(d) such other costs as appear to the Minister to be relevant to the indexation of PPOs.

(3) Within 12 months of the creation of the index under subsection (2), the Minister shall, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, make regulations specifying this index to be used, along with the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices as published by the Central Statistics Office, for the purpose of the annual adjustment of payments provided for under PPOs.".