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Amendment of Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 — early childcare supplement.

18.— (1) The Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 is amended in Part 4A (inserted by section 28 > of the Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Act 2006 )—

(a) in section 223A (substituted by section 21 of the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2008 ) by substituting “5 years” for “5 years and 6 months”, and

(b) in section 223B (as so substituted)—

(i) in subsection (1) by substituting “€996” for “€1,104” and “€83” for “€92”,

(ii) in subsection (2) by substituting “5 years” for “5 years and 6 months”, and

(iii) in subsection (3) by substituting “5 years” for “5 years and 6 months”,

and sections 223A and 223B, as so amended, are set out in the Table to this section.

(2) This section comes into operation, or is to be taken to have come into operation, on 1 March 2009.

TABLE

Entitlement to early childcare supplement.

223A.—Subject to this Part, a person who is a qualified person for the purposes of Part 4 shall, so long as he or she remains so qualified, be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas a monthly payment (in this Act referred to as ‘early childcare supplement’) in accordance with section 223B in respect of each qualified child (within the meaning of section 219) until such time as the qualified child attains the age of 5 years.

Amount of early childcare supplement.

223B.—(1) Subject to this Act, the maximum amount of early childcare supplement payable under section 223A in respect of each qualified child shall not exceed €996 in any year, payable in equal monthly instalments of €83.

(2) Early childcare supplement shall be payable in respect of the month following the month of the birth of the child and shall continue to be payable up to and including the month in which the child attains the age of 5 years.

(3) Early childcare supplement shall be paid monthly in arrears and the final payment shall be in respect of the month in which the child attains the age of 5 years.

(4) Regulations which may be made under section 242(1)(a) providing for the time and manner of payment of early childcare supplement shall be subject to the consent of the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Health and Children.