S.I. No. 157/2025 - Mother and Baby institutions Payment Scheme Act 2023 (Financial support in respect of legal costs and expenses) (Amendment) Regulations 2025

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 2nd May, 2025.

I, NORMA FOLEY, Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 44 of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act 2023 (No.20 of 2023), hereby make the following regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act 2023 (Financial support in respect of legal costs and expenses) (Amendment) Regulations 2025.

2. In these Regulations, “Regulations of 2023” means the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act 2023 (Financial support in respect of legal costs and expenses) Regulations 2024 ( S.I. No. 88 of 2024 ).

3. Regulation 3(3) of the Regulations of 2023 is amended by the substitution, for “shall make payment directly to the applicant or, where applicable, the person to whom section 39(3) of the Act of 2023 applies.”, of the following:

“shall make payment to –

(a) the applicant or, where applicable, the person to whom section 39(3) of the Act of 2023 applies, or

(b) where the applicant or, where applicable, the person to whom section 39(3) of the Act of 2023 applies so directs in writing, to such legal practitioner as he or she specifies in the direction.”.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

30 April, 2025.

NORMA FOLEY,

Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth.