S.I. No. 604/2024 - Social Welfare (Consolidated Supplementary Welfare Allowance) (Amendment) (No. 4) (Calculation of Means) Regulations 2024

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Consolidated Supplementary Welfare Allowance) (Amendment) (No. 4) (Calculation of Means) Regulations 2024.

(2) These Regulations and the Social Welfare (Consolidated Supplementary Welfare Allowance) Regulations 2007 to 2024 shall be construed together as one and may be cited together as the Social Welfare (Consolidated Supplementary Welfare Allowance) Regulations 2007 to 2024.

Commencement

2. These Regulations come into operation on 9 August 2024.

Calculation of means

3. Article 36 (amended by article 3 of the Social Welfare (Consolidated Supplementary Welfare Allowance) (Amendment) (No. 3) (Assessment of Means) Regulations 2024 (

S.I. No. 434 of 2024

)) of the Social Welfare (Consolidated Supplementary Welfare Allowance) Regulations 2007 (

S.I. No. 412 of 2007

) is amended–

(a) by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (bb)

“(bba) any ex gratia payments made under the Stardust Redress Scheme (2024),”.

The Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform consents to the foregoing Regulations.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

29 October, 2024.

PASCHAL DONOHOE,

Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

29 October, 2024.

HEATHER HUMPHREYS,

Minister for Social Protection.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(

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

)

These Regulations provide that any

ex-gratia

payments made under the Stardust Redress Scheme (2024) by the Department of Justice will be disregarded in the means test for supplementary welfare allowance payments.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

8

th November,

2024.

I, HEATHER HUMPHREYS, Minister for Social Protection, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 4

(amended by reference 1 of the

Schedule to the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2024

(No. 24 of 2024)) of the

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005

(No. 26 of 2005), and by Reference 19 (amended by

section 26

of the

Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2010

(No. 37 of 2010)) in Table 2 of Schedule 3, to the

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005

, with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, hereby make the following Regulations

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