Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 1:

In page 5, to delete line 26 and substitute the following:

" "civil partner" shall be construed in accordance with section 3 of the Act of 2010;".

These amendments are technical drafting amendments. Amendments Nos. 1 and 2, which clarify the definitions of "civil partner" and "cohabitant" are required by virtue of the fact that the definitions of "civil partner" and "cohabitant" in the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 are implicit in the sections of the Act to which the amendments refer, rather than explicit.

Amendment No. 6 to section 6 relates to the outsourcing arrangements for the school scheme administrator. While subsection (1) of amendment No. 6 allows outsourcing of functions conferred on the scheme administrator, subsection (2) specifies that these functions may include the making of payments. However, in subsection (2) there are no particular specified payments to which "the payments" refers. Amendment No. 6, which is purely a drafting amendment, therefore, proposes to delete the word "the".

Amendment No. 22 is also a technical drafting amendment to provide clarity that the child to whom the paragraph refers is the child for whom an application is being made for financial support under the scheme.