Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2021-04-23
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Alice-Mary Higgins (IND), National University of Ireland

I move amendment No. 2:
In page 3, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following:
“Amendment of section 26 of Principal Act
2. Section 26 of the Principal Act is amended—
(a) in subsection (2), by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (b):
“(ba) any social protection payments of which a debtor may be in receipt, shall not be taken into account in calculating his or her income;”;
and
(b) in subsection (2)(c), by the substitution of “€1,500” for “€400”.”.

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