Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The definitions section of the Bill outlines:

“declarable income” means any money or other form of payment that a medical practitioner receives from a medical equipment supplier, its servants or agents, or pharmaceutical company and its servants or agents above the value of €600.

There is potential for people to circumvent the provision by making multiple donations that amount to less than the threshold of €600. The select committee may amend the provision on Committee Stage to ensure that one must aggregate the sums of money. In terms of the issue of pharmaceutical companies paying for nurses or hospital and other health care professionals, primarily the money would be seen as a gift. Obviously, we gift to the entity where the nurses work, for example.