Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Section 44 provides for an enhancement of the HSE waiver powers to the benefit of service users by extending these grounds to cover the extent to which the person concerned provides for his or her own maintenance or accommodation, or both, and reflects a key element of the definitional change proposed under section 42. If the section were deleted, the present position would prevail, namely, under section 67D(1)(b)(iii), as inserted by section 19 of the Health (Amendment) Act, the HSE may in whole or in part waive a service user's obligation to pay residential support service maintenance in accommodation where it is satisfied that it is reasonable to do so, having regard to the extent to which the person concerned provides for his or her own maintenance. This is about enhancing the HSE's powers to waive fees.