Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 23:

In page 36, to delete line 28 and substitute the following:

“ “section 17(4)”,

(c) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (3):

“(3) Subsection (2) shall not apply—

(a) in the case of an order made under section 14B(1), where all the joint tenants in the joint tenancy concerned are interested persons, or

(b) in the case of an order made under section 17(2), where all the joint tenants in the joint tenancy concerned have made a request to the Executive that the ancillary State support be paid in relation to the interest in the land concerned.”,

and

(d) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (3):

“(4) In this section— ‘interested person’, in relation to an order made under section 14B(1), means—

(a) where the chargeable land is not a transferred asset—

(i) each member of the couple, where the relevant person is a member of a couple, or

(ii) the relevant person, where the relevant person is not a member of a couple,

or

(b) where the chargeable land is a transferred asset, the person or persons who hold the interest that—

(i) each member of the couple had in the chargeable land, where the relevant person is a member of a couple, or

(ii) the relevant person had in the chargeable land, where the relevant person is not a member of a couple;

‘relevant person’ means a person receiving care services.”.”.

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