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Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Act 2006 (No. 5)Introductory TextActs Referred toPart 1 Short Title, Construction, Collective Citation and Commencement (s. 1)1. Short title, construction, collective citation and commencement.Part 2 Amendments to the Social Welfare Acts (ss. 2-37)2. Definition (Part 2).3. Child benefit - new rates.4. Renaming of certain social welfare schemes.5. Reckonable income - amendment to definition.6. Rates of self-employed contributions and related matters.7. Carer's benefit - extension of duration of payment.8. Decision by deciding officer - homemakers.9. Old age (contributory) pension - improvement.10. Conditions for receipt of old age (contributory) pension - amendment.11. Old age contributory pension - automatic entitlement for invalidity pension recipients.12. Old age (contributory) pension - automatic entitlement for retirement pension recipients.13. Retirement pension - improvement.14. Conditions for receipt of retirement pension - amendment.15. Pre-retirement allowance - payment of allowance.16. State pension (non-contributory).17. State pension (non-contributory) - consequential amendments to Principal Act.18. Amendment to widowed parent grant.19. Amendment to description of social assistance.20. Blind pension - amendments.21. Amendment to widow's (non-contributory) pension and widower's (non-contributory) pension.22. Amendment to one-parent family payment.23. Amendment to transitional provisions - relevant payments.24. State pension (non-contributory) - assessment of means.25. Assessment of means - insertion of new Part 5.26. Orphan's (non-contributory) pension - amendment.27. One-parent family payment - increase in income threshold.28. Early childcare supplement - provision.29. Early childcare supplement - consequential amendments to Principal Act.30. Respite care grant - increase in rate.31. Family income supplement - improvement.32. Provisions relating to entitlement - amendment.33. Means assessment - amendments.34. Supplementary welfare allowance - improvement in means assessment.36. Recovery of payments from financial institutions - amendment.37. Miscellaneous amendments to Principal Act.35. Personal public service number - additional specified bodies.Part 3 Amendments to the Pensions Act 1990 (ss. 38-44)38. Definition (Part 3).39. Notice of intention by Pensions Authority to prosecute.40. Indemnity.41. Index-linked benefits.43. Functions of Pensions Ombudsman.44. Miscellaneous amendments to Principal Act.42. Review of actuarial work.Part 4 Miscellaneous Amendments to other Acts (ss. 45-48)45. Amendment to Combat Poverty Agency Act 1986.46. Amendment to Freedom of Information Act 1997.47. Amendment to Taxes Consolidation Act 1997.48. Amendment to Carer's Leave Act 2001.Schedule 1 Renaming of certain Social Welfare SchemesSchedule 2 Rates of AssistanceSchedule 3 State Pension (non-contributory) - Consequential Amendments to Principal ActSchedule 4 State Pension (non-contributory) - Assessment of MeansSchedule 5 Blind pension, widow's (non-contributory) pension, widower's (non-contributory) pension and orphan's (non-contributory) pension, one-parent family payment and carer's allowance - Assessment of MeansSchedule 6 Early Childcare Supplement - Consequential Amendments to Principal ActSchedule 7 Miscellaneous Amendments to Principal ActSchedule 8 Miscellaneous Amendments to Pensions Act 1990Schedule 9 Amendments to Carer's Leave Act 2001
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AI Summary of 28. Early childcare supplement - provision.

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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 1 April 2006 - onwards
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28. Early childcare supplement - provision.

(1) The Principal Act is amended by inserting the following after Part 4:

"Part 4A Early Childcare Supplement

223A. Entitlement to early childcare supplement.

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 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 6 years.

223B. Amount of early childcare supplement.

(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 €1,000 in any year, payable in equal quarterly instalments of €250, and only one such supplement shall be payable in any year in respect of a qualified child.

(2) 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 prior consent of the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Health and Children.

(3) Notwithstanding subsection (1), where in any quarter a qualified child attains the age of 6 years, early childcare supplement shall be paid in respect of the quarter in which the child attains that age.

(4) In this Part-

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