Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 10:

In page 6, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following:

“Amendment of section 51A of Act of 2015

10. Section 51A of the Act of 2015 is amended—

(a) in subsection (1), by the substitution of “section 50A and subsection (1A),” for “section 50A,” and

(b) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (1):

“(1A) (a) Subsection (1) shall not apply in respect of a person who is a member of a class of person that is prescribed under paragraph (b).

(b) The Minister may, for the purposes of this subsection, prescribe a class or classes of persons, being persons to whom such permission as may be specified has been given.

(c) The matters to which the Minister may have regard in specifying a permission under paragraph (b) include—

(i) the nature and purposes of the permission,

(ii) the period for which a person to whom the permission is granted may remain in the State, and

(iii) the conditions attached to the permission.

(d) In this subsection, a reference to a permission to remain in the State is a reference to a permission to remain in the State that has been given in accordance with the law of the State and is valid.”.”.

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