Social Welfare Act, 1986
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Financing of health board expenditure. |
18.—(1) Section 134 (2) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the deletion of “, except supplementary welfare allowance,”. | |
(2) Section 218 is hereby amended by— | ||
(a) the substitution for subsection (9) (inserted by the Social Welfare Act, 1983 ) of the following subsection: | ||
“(9) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section— | ||
(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, 31st December, 1982, 31st December, 1983, 31st December, 1984 and 31st December, 1985, and in respect of no other year, shall be such amount as may be prescribed for each such year by the Minister, after consultation with the Minister for the Environment, and the proportion of those amounts payable by each, such local authority in respect of each such year shall be that which the total expenditure on home assistance in the year ending 31st December, 1975, bears to the total expenditure by all local authorities refered to in subsection (1) on home assistance in that year; | ||
(b) the amount payable under subsection (3) by a local authority referred to in that subsection in respect of each of the years ending on 31st December, 1982, 31st December, 1983, 31st December, 1984 and 31st December, 1985, and in respect of no other year 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.”, and | ||
(b) the insertion after subsection (9) (inserted by this section) of the following subsection: | ||
“(10) The Minister shall, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, make grants to health boards to defray all expenditure (including the costs of administration) of those boards on supplementary welfare allowance in the year ending on 31st December, 1986, and in each year thereafter, and, accordingly, so much of the preceding subsections of this section, other than subsection (9), as refer to the financing of health board expenditure on supplementary welfare allowance shall, on and after the commencement of the Social Welfare Act, 1986, cease to have effect.”. |