PART II

SOCIAL INSURANCE

CHAPTER 1

The Social Insurance Fund

[1988, s. 11; 1991, s. 40(3)]

6.—(1) For the purposes of providing moneys for meeting the expenditure on benefit and making any other payments which, under this Act, the Redundancy Payments Acts, 1967 to 1991, and the Protection of Employees (Employer's Insolvency) Acts, 1984 and 1990, are to be made out of the Social Insurance Fund, there shall be—

(a) contributions (referred to in this Act as “employment contributions”) in respect of employed contributors, each of which shall comprise a contribution by the employed contributor and a contribution (referred to in this Act as “the employer's contribution”) by the employer of the employed contributor,

(b) contributions (referred to in this Act as “self-employment contributions”) in respect of self-employed contributors,

(c) contributions in respect of voluntary contributors, and

(d) payments out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.

[1981, s. 9(2); 1988, s. 11]

(2) Employment contributions, self-employment contributions and voluntary contributions shall be paid into the Social Insurance Fund.

[1981, s. 122(1)]

7.—(1) The Social Insurance Fund (in this section and in section 8 referred to as “the Fund”) established under the Social Welfare Act, 1952 , and continued in being under section 122 of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981 , shall continue in being and to comprise a current account and an investment account.

[1981, s. 122(2)]

(2) The Minister shall manage and control the current account of the Fund.

[1981, s. 122(3)]

(3) The Minister for Finance shall manage and control the investment account of the Fund.

[1981, s. 122(4)]

(4) Save where otherwise specifically provided—

(a) sums payable into the Fund shall be paid into the current account of the Fund, and

(b) sums payable out of the Fund shall be paid out of that account.

[1981, s. 122(5)]

(5) Moneys standing to the credit of the current account of the Fund and not required to meet current expenditure shall be transferred to the investment account of the Fund.

[1981, s. 122(6)]

(6) Whenever the moneys in the current account of the Fund are insufficient to meet the liabilities of that account, there shall be transferred to that account from the investment account of the Fund such sums as may be necessary for the purpose of discharging those liabilities.

[1981, s. 122(7)]

(7) Subject to subsection (6), moneys standing to the credit of the investment account of the Fund shall be invested by the Minister for Finance and income arising from any such investment shall be paid into that account.

[1981, s. 122(8)]

(8) An investment under subsection (7) may be in any securities in which trustees are for the time being by law empowered to invest trust funds or in any of the stocks, funds and securities which are for the time being authorised by law as investments for Post Office Savings Bank Funds.

[1981, s. 122(9)]

(9) (a) The amount by which the income of the Fund for any financial year is less than its expenditure shall be paid into the Fund out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.

(b) The income and expenditure of the Fund for a financial year shall be determined for the purposes of this subsection by the Minister on such basis as may be agreed upon between him and the Minister for Finance.

[1981, s. 122 (10)]

(10) Any sum payable into the Fund under subsection (9)(a) shall be paid in such manner and at such times as the Minister for Finance may determine.

[1981, s. 122 (11)]

(11) Accounts of the Fund shall be prepared in such form, in such manner and at such times as the Minister for Finance may direct and the Comptroller and Auditor General shall examine and certify every such account and a copy thereof, together with the report thereon of the Comptroller and Auditor General, shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas.

[1981, s. 123(1)]

8.—(1) Payments may be made out of the Fund in respect of expenditure by the Minister on the acquisition of lands, premises, furniture or equipment or the construction or reconstruction of premises, and any such lands, premises, furniture or equipment shall be held by the Minister on behalf of the Fund.

[1981, s. 123(2)]

(2) A payment shall not be made under subsection (1) save with the consent of the Minister for Finance.

[1981, s. 123(5)]

(3) The Minister may dispose of any lands, premises, furniture or equipment which he has acquired, constructed or reconstructed under this section and any moneys which he receives in respect of any such disposal shall be paid into the Fund.

[1981, s. 123(6)]

(4) A disposal shall not be effected under subsection (3) save with the consent of the Minister for Finance.