Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

I move amendment No. 100:

In page 18, before Schedule 1, to insert the following new section:

33.—Section 13 of the Health (Repayment Scheme) Act 2006 is amended by—

(a) the insertion, in subsection (2), of "given with the approval of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform" after "Minister for Finance", and

(b) the insertion, in paragraph (b) of subsection (4), of "and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform" after "with the Minister".".

This amendment deals section 13 of the Health Repayment Scheme Act. As Deputy Fleming indicated, section 13 establishes a special account to be funded from moneys provided by the Oireachtas to be used to pay prescribed repayments of the costs to the executive in administering the 2006 Act, in so far as it relates to prescribed repayments and the executive's establishment and management of the fund.

The amendment gives a role to the Minister for public expenditure and reform in addition to that of the Minister for Finance under the Act. In regard to the issuing of moneys out of this account and the terms and conditions relating to it. I understand it is an existing account. It is simply taking what is covered under the Health Repayment Scheme Act 2006 and giving a role to the Minister for public expenditure and reform in regard to the distribution of its funding.

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