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Dáil Éireann DÁIL ÉIREANN AN BILLE FÁN SCÉIM UM THACAÍOCHT TITHE BANALTRAIS (LEASÚ), 2021 NURSING HOMES SUPPORT SCHEME (AMENDMENT) BILL 2021 LEASUITHE COISTE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS [No. 76 of 2021] [29 June, 2021] DÁIL ÉIREANN AN BILLE FÁN SCÉIM UM THACAÍOCHT TITHE BANALTRAIS (LEASÚ), 2021 —ROGHCHOISTE NURSING HOMES SUPPORT SCHEME (AMENDMENT) BILL 2021 —SELECT COMMITTEE Leasuithe Amendments SECTION 3 1. In page 6, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following: “3. The Principal Act is amended, in Part 2, by the insertion of the following section after section 14: “14A.(1) This section applies where— (a) the Executive has made a determination under section 7(8)(a) that a person (in this section referred to as the ‘relevant person’) needs care services, (b) the Executive has made a determination under section 11(1) in relation to the relevant person, and (c) the relevant person is receiving care services. (2) The relevant person or his or her partner shall only have their family home considered for the purposes of the financial assessment of means under this Act and the Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Act 2021. (3) All farm assets or businesses, including leased or transferred assets, shall not be taken into account for the purposes of the financial assessment of means under this Act or the Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Act 2021.”.”. —Mattie McGrath, Richard O'Donoghue, Danny Healy-Rae, Carol Nolan, Michael Healy- Rae, Michael Collins. [Acceptance of this amendment involves the deletion of section 3 of the Bill.] 2. In page 7, to delete lines 3 to 17 and substitute the following: “(b) that the relevant person declares by way of declaration that, in relation to the specified asset, which may be leased out without [No. 76 of 2021] [29 June, 2021] [SECTION 3] hindrance, at any time by the relevant person and/or his/her family, either before, at the time of or subsequent to that relevant person beginning to receive care services, and that nothing in the Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Act 2021 or this Act shall prohibit such leasing arrangements,”. —Mattie McGrath, Richard O'Donoghue, Danny Healy-Rae, Carol Nolan, Michael Healy- Rae, Michael Collins. Section opposed. —Mattie McGrath, Richard O'Donoghue, Danny Healy-Rae, Carol Nolan, Michael Healy- Rae, Michael Collins. SECTION 4 3. In page 9, between lines 31 and 32, to insert the following: “4. The Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 14A (inserted by section 3): “14B. Where an interview is held under this Act with the Executive the interviewee shall have the right to have another person present to support them and/or to advocate on their behalf.”.”. —Denis Naughten, Cathal Berry, Seán Canney, Noel Grealish, Verona Murphy, Matt Shanahan. Section opposed. —Mattie McGrath, Richard O'Donoghue, Danny Healy-Rae, Carol Nolan, Michael Healy- Rae, Michael Collins. SECTION 5 4. In page 14, lines 11 to 14, to delete all words from and including “, or” in line 11 down to and including line 14. —Denis Naughten, Cathal Berry, Seán Canney, Noel Grealish, Verona Murphy, Matt Shanahan. Section opposed. —Mattie McGrath, Richard O'Donoghue, Danny Healy-Rae, Carol Nolan, Michael Healy- Rae, Michael Collins. SECTION 6 Section opposed. —Mattie McGrath, Richard O'Donoghue, Danny Healy-Rae, Carol Nolan, Michael Healy- Rae, Michael Collins. SECTION 7 Section opposed. —Mattie McGrath, Richard O'Donoghue, Danny Healy-Rae, Carol Nolan, Michael Healy- Rae, Michael Collins. 2 [SECTION 8] SECTION 8 Section opposed. —Mattie McGrath, Richard O'Donoghue, Danny Healy-Rae, Carol Nolan, Michael Healy- Rae, Michael Collins. SECTION 9 Section opposed. —Mattie McGrath, Richard O'Donoghue, Danny Healy-Rae, Carol Nolan, Michael Healy- Rae, Michael Collins. SECTION 10 Section opposed. —Mattie McGrath, Richard O'Donoghue, Danny Healy-Rae, Carol Nolan, Michael Healy- Rae, Michael Collins. SECTION 11 Section opposed. —Mattie McGrath, Richard O'Donoghue, Danny Healy-Rae, Carol Nolan, Michael Healy- Rae, Michael Collins. SECTION 12 Section opposed. —Mattie McGrath, Richard O'Donoghue, Danny Healy-Rae, Carol Nolan, Michael Healy- Rae, Michael Collins. SECTION 16 5. In page 34, line 26, to delete “10 working days” and substitute “30 working days”. —Denis Naughten, Cathal Berry, Seán Canney, Noel Grealish, Verona Murphy, Matt Shanahan. SECTION 19 Section opposed. —Mattie McGrath, Richard O'Donoghue, Danny Healy-Rae, Carol Nolan, Michael Healy- Rae, Michael Collins. SECTION 21 6. In page 37, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: “(b) The Minister may in respect of facilitating any measure to alleviate the shortage of residential accommodation by regulation do anything which appears to be necessary or expedient.”,”. —Denis Naughten, Cathal Berry, Seán Canney, Noel Grealish, Verona Murphy, Matt Shanahan. Section opposed. —Mattie McGrath, Richard O'Donoghue, Danny Healy-Rae, Carol Nolan, Michael Healy- Rae, Michael Collins. 3 [SECTION 23] SECTION 23 Section opposed. —Mattie McGrath, Richard O'Donoghue, Danny Healy-Rae, Carol Nolan, Michael Healy- Rae, Michael Collins. SECTION 24 7. In page 39, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following: “24. The Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 45A (inserted by section 23): “45B. (1)The Executive shall prepare, within a year of the Act taking effect, a report containing information in relation to— (a) the legislative and policy options available to the State for the reassessment of rental income for those in receipt of the Nursing Homes Support Scheme in order to incentivise the letting of these homes, and (b) an assessment of the likely impact of these options on the operation of the Scheme and the letting of vacant properties. (2) The Executive shall send a copy of the report prepared under subsection (1) to the Minister within three months of the provisions of the subsection taking effect. (3) The Minister shall cause a copy of the report prepared under subsection (1) to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas not more than three months after it has been prepared.”.”. —Róisín Shortall, Cian O'Callaghan. SECTION 25 8. In page 41, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “(c) the threshold in subsection 6C(b) can also be reached on rental income generated from the asset.”,”. —Denis Naughten, Cathal Berry, Seán Canney, Noel Grealish, Verona Murphy, Matt Shanahan. SECTION 26 9. In page 43, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: “(e) the threshold in subsection 9(d) can also be reached on rental income generated from the asset.’.”. —Denis Naughten, Cathal Berry, Seán Canney, Noel Grealish, Verona Murphy, Matt Shanahan. SECTION 27 10. In page 43, to delete lines 41 and 42, and in page 44, to delete lines 1 and 2 and substitute the following: “(2) This Act shall come into operation 30 days after its enactment.”. 4 [SECTION 27] —Denis Naughten, Cathal Berry, Seán Canney, Noel Grealish, Verona Murphy, Matt Shanahan. 5.
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