S.I. No. 30/2023 - Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017 (Section 42) (Payments to General Practitioners) (Amendment) Regulations 2023

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017 (Section 42) (Payments to General Practitioners) (Amendment) Regulations 2023.

2. In these Regulations—

“Principal Regulations” means the

Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017

(Section 42) (Payments to General Practitioners) Regulations 2019 (

S.I. No. 692 of 2019

) (as amended by the

Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017

(Section 42) (Payments to General Practitioners) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (

S.I. No. 311 of 2020

), the

Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017

(Section 42) (Payments to General Practitioners) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (

S.I. No. 685 of 2020

) and the

Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017

(Section 42) (Payments to General Practitioners) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (

S.I. No. 23 of 2022

)).

3. Part C (1) and (2) of Schedule 2 of the Principal Regulations is amended by replacing “65 years” with “45 years”.

The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform consents to the foregoing Regulations.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform,

31 January, 2023.

PASCHAL DONOHOE,

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

2 February, 2023.

STEPHEN DONNELLY,

Minister for Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(

This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation

)

In accordance with the 2019 GP Agreement on Contractual Reform and Service Development, the Chronic Disease Management (CDM) programme’s Opportunistic Case Finding and Preventative components are to be extended from 1 January 2023 to GMS patients aged 45 years and older (currently available to GMS patients aged 65 years and older). This Regulation brings into effect that change to the Principal Regulations.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

10

th February,

2023.

I, STEPHEN DONNELLY, Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 42

of the

Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017

(No. 34 of 2017), being satisfied that subsection (6) of that section has been complied with; having complied with subsection (9) of that section; having had regard to the matters specified in paragraphs (a) to (e) of subsection (10) of that section, with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, hereby make the following regulations