John Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)

This amendment corrects a printing error in section 4, as published.

Amendment agreed to.

Government amendment No. 6:

In page 4, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following new subsection:

"(2) Section 21 of the Act of 1988 is further amended by substituting the following for subsections (3) to (5):

'(3) Where the Fund incurs a liability under this Act and the amount specified in subsection (1) is exceeded, the Supplementary Fund shall, subject to subsection (4), be liable for any excess over that amount.

(4) Where the Supplementary Fund incurs a liability under this Act in respect of pollution damage in the State, the aggregate amount of compensation payable in respect of any one incident shall not exceed 750,000,000 units of account.

(5) Where the amount of established claims against the Supplementary Fund exceeds the aggregate amount of compensation payable under subsection (4), the amount available shall be distributed in such a manner that the proportion between any established claim and the amount of compensation actually recovered by the claimant by virtue of the Supplementary Fund Protocol shall be the same for all claimants.