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Supplementary welfare allowance (financing of health board expenditure).
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15.—Section 218 of the Principal Act is hereby amended—
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(a) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (8):
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“(8) The Minister shall, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, make grants to health boards to defray so much of their expenditure on supplementary welfare allowance and costs of administration of that allowance as is not met by income under this section.”,
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and
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(b) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (8):
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“(9) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section—
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(a) the total amount to be paid under subsection (1) by all local authorities referred to in that subsection in respect of each of the years ending on 31st December, 1981, and on 31st December, 1982, and in respect of each year after the year ending on 31st December, 1982, shall be such amount as may be prescribed for each such year by the Minister, after consultation with the Minister for the Environment and with the consent of the Minister for Finance, and the proportion of those amounts payable by every such local authority in respect of each such year shall be that which the total expenditure on home assistance by that local authority in the year ending 31st December, 1975, bears to the total expenditure by all local authorities referred to in subsection (1) on home assistance in that year;
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(b) the amount payable under subsection (3) by a local authority referred to in that subsection in respect of the year ending on 31st December, 1982, and in respect of each year after the year ending on 31st December, 1982, shall not exceed such amount as may be prescribed for that year by the Minister, after consultation with the Minister for the Environment and with the consent of the Minister for Finance.”.
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