Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

I move amendment No. 13:

In page 7, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following:

"3.—Section 49 (as amended by item 54 of Part 6 of Schedule 7 to the Health Act 2004) of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted:

49.—In this Part—

'authorised person' means a person appointed under section 54 to be an authorised person for the purposes of this Part;

'pre-school child' means a child—

(a) who has not attained the age of six years, and

(b) who is not attending—

(i) a school, or

(ii) an establishment which provides an education programme similar to that provided by a school;

'pre-school service' means any pre-school, play group, day nursery, crèche, day-care or other similar service which caters for pre-school children, including those grant-aided by the Health Service Executive;

'school' means an establishment which provides—

(a) primary education to its students,

(b) early childhood education, or

(c) both primary education to its students and early childhood education;

'school age child' means a child who is attending a school age service;

'school age service' means a childcare service—

(a) provided on a regular basis for children (or a class of children) who attend—

(i) a school, or

(ii) an establishment which provides an educational programme similar to that provided by a school,

(b) provided outside of normal school hours, and

(c) the basis of access to which is made publicly known to the parents and guardians of children referred to in paragraph (a).".".

This amendment inserts the definitions of what school age child and school age child care are into section 49 of the legislation.

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