Eileen Flynn (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 45:

In page 35, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following:

“Report on contribution of relevant parties to Scheme

50.(1) Under this section, "relevant parties" means persons, organisations, the estates of persons, or other entities involved at any time in the operation, management, administration or ownership of relevant institutions, or in the carrying out of illegal vaccine trials or any other medical experimentation on relevant persons.

(2) The Minister shall, within 12 months of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas on the potential for relevant parties to be required to contribute to the cost of the Scheme.

(3) A report under this section shall include consideration of the following matters:

(a) means of identifying and contacting relevant parties, including those resident or incorporated outside the State, and including organisations or corporations that may have been dissolved or are now incorporated under a different name;

(b) options for creating a statutory obligation on relevant parties to contribute to the costs of the Scheme, or any future expansion of the Scheme, including the creation of offences for relevant parties who do not meet their contribution requirements;

(c) the establishment of criteria for determining the size of the contribution due by relevant parties, including but not limited to:

(i) the length of time a relevant party was involved in the operation, management, or administration of a relevant institution, or medical trial in a relevant institution;

(ii) the volume and severity of human rights abuses perpetrated by a relevant party;

(iii) the severity of psychological, physical, medical, or emotional harm perpetrated by a relevant party; and

(iv) the financial gain made by a relevant party as a result of their involvement in a relevant institution or medical experimentation in a relevant institution;

(d) analysis of the potential revenue to be collected from contributions under this section, and the potential increases that could be made to payments under this Act as a result of such contributions.”.