Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I would think that it could equally be presumed that a doctor should act "in good faith" at all times. However, that is being put into the Bill as a specific requirement. I would have accepted it as a given that if one is a medical practitioner, one acts in good faith at all times when making decisions, but it has been included specifically in the Bill. There are legal subtleties to this, where one can include one of these provisions, but not the other. We should include according to "best medical practice" or "Medical Council guidelines", because these would give reassurance to lay people They wonder why one half of these proposals is included, bit the other half is not. That was the point of my amendment. If we can say that we do not include "best medical practice" because it is implicit, one would think "good faith" was also implicit. This is a cause of some angst for people looking at this.