Frank Fahey (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

I move amendment No. 87a:

In page 15, to delete lines 27 to 35 and substitute the following:

"(e) in the case of a service to be provided by or on behalf of the Executive, the need to ensure that the provision of the service would not result in any expenditure in excess of the amount allocated to implement the approved service plan of the Executive for the relevant financial year,".

This is a technical amendment as a result of the establishment of the HSE under the Health Act 2004 to replace former health board structure. I signalled on Committee Stage that I would be bringing forward an amendment to this section on Report Stage. It was not possible to have it in time for Committee Stage because the related legal and technical issues remained to be resolved at that time.

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