Séamus Healy (Tipperary South, Workers and Unemployed Action Group) | Oireachtas source

The Minister of State, in dealing with this matter, indicates that we are not in a position to instruct medical practitioners or to interfere in best medical practice. The amendments that I have tabled are administrative amendments. They do not seek to instruct a medical practitioner. If the Minister of State reads the amendments and the section we are referring to, "forwarding forthwith" or causing to be "forwarded forthwith" the section 7 certification to an appropriate institution and "(b) to make forthwith such arrangements as may be necessary" he will see that these are matters of administrative action and nothing else.