Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health
Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage
7:25 pm
James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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I move amendment No. 17:
In page 22, to delete lines 33 to 52 and in page 23, to delete lines 1 and 2 and substitute the following:“(4) For the purposes of this Act--(a) a relevant contract which provides health insurance cover for--(i) not more than 66 per cent of the full cost for hospital charges in a private hospital, or(b) any other relevant contract is a relevant contract which provides for advanced cover,and references in this Act to 'non-advanced cover' and 'advanced cover' shall be construed accordingly.”.
(ii) not more than the prescribed minimum payments within the meaning of the Health Insurance Act 1994 (Minimum Benefit) Regulations 1996 (S.I. No. 83 of 1996),
whichever is the greater, is a relevant contract which provides for non-advanced cover, and