Ministerial, Parliamentary and Judicial Offices and Oireachtas Members (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2001

Amendment of section 3 of the 1998 Act — allowances to whips and others.

39.—Section 3 of the 1998 Act is amended—

(a) by deleting subsection (1) (a)(iii), and

(b) in subsection (1)(a)(vii), by deleting “or”, and

(c) by inserting the following word and subparagraph after subsection (1)(a)(viii):

“or

(ix) Assistant Party Whip in Dáil Éireann,”,

and

(d) by inserting in subsection (3) the following definition immediately after the definitions of “Assistant Government Whip in Seanad Éireann”, “Deputy Leader of the House in Seanad Éireann” and “Government Whip in Seanad Éireann”:

“Assistant Party Whip in Dáil Éireann” means a member of Dáil Éireann nominated by the leader of a party in Dáil Éireann to be an assistant whip for the party (but only if the party has at least 7 members in Dáil Éireann),”,

and

(e) in subsection (3), by deleting the definition of “Leader of the House in Seanad Éireann”.