S.I. No. 731/2024 - Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers Fuel Grant (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024


Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 31st December, 2024.

I, JACK CHAMBERS, Minister for Finance, after consultation with the Minister for Health and the Data Protection Commission, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 81 of the Finance Act 2015 (No. 52 of 2015) and having had regard to the matters set out in subsections (3) and (4) of that section, hereby make the following regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers Fuel Grant (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024.

2. The Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers Fuel Grant Regulations 2015 ( S.I. No. 635 of 2015 ) are amended –

(a) in Regulation 5(1) –

(i) in subparagraph (e), by the substitution of “Schedule 5,” for “Schedule 5, and”,

(ii) by the substitution of the following subparagraph for subparagraph (f):

“(f) in the case of hydrocarbon oil purchased on or after 1 January 2024 and before 1 January 2025, in Schedule 6,”,

and

(iii) by the insertion of the following subparagraphs after subparagraph (f):

“(g) in the case of hydrocarbon oil purchased on or after 1 January 2025 and before 1 May 2025, in Schedule 7, and

(h) in the case of hydrocarbon oil purchased on or after 1 May 2025, in Schedule 8.”,

(b) by the substitution of the following Schedule for Schedule 6:

“SCHEDULE 6

Regulation 5(1)(f)

Rates of fuel grant payable by type of hydrocarbon oil purchased on or after 1 January 2024 and before 1 January 2025

Fuel Type

Rate per litre

Petrol

€0.671

Heavy Oil

€0.576

Liquefied petroleum gas

€0.155

”,

and

(c) by the insertion of the following Schedules after Schedule 6 (amended by paragraph (b)):

“SCHEDULE 7

Regulation 5(1)(g)

Rates of fuel grant payable by type of hydrocarbon oil purchased on or after 1 January 2025 and before 1 May 2025

Fuel Type

Rate per litre

Petrol

€0.689

Heavy Oil

€0.596

Liquefied petroleum gas

€0.155

SCHEDULE 8

Regulation 5(1)(h)

Rates of fuel grant payable by type of hydrocarbon oil purchased on or after 1 May 2025

Fuel Type

Rate per litre

Petrol

€0.689

Heavy Oil

€0.596

Liquefied petroleum gas

€0.167

”.

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GIVEN under my Official Seal,

16 December, 2024.

JACK CHAMBERS,

Minister for Finance.