Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Amendment No, 37 provides for a regulation-making power to allow for EPAs executed under the Power of Attorney Act 1996 to be registered under the 2015 Act. That will allow those persons who have already gone to the trouble of creating an EPA to register it with the DSS under the 2015 Act, which provides for more efficient procedures and more robust safeguards than the 1996 Act. Additionally, the director of the DSS will have the power to waive the fees associated with this registration so as to make the process as cost-neutral as possible for the person.

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