44. Section 6 of the Local Government Act 1998 is amended in subsection (2C) (inserted by section 7 of the Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Act 2013)—

(a) by substituting for paragraph (a) (inserted by section 79 of the Local Government Reform Act 2014) the following:

“(a) Subject to paragraphs (b) and (c), the Minister may, on or before 31 December 2015, pursuant to a request from the Minister for Finance, make one, or more than one, payment from the Fund in the amount requested by the Minister for Finance.”,

and

(b) by substituting for paragraph (c) (inserted by the said section 79) the following:

“(c) The total amount of all payments made under paragraph (a) shall not exceed €540 million.”.