Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I do not want to dwell on this but the point I am making to the Minister is that he is not giving the colleges the opportunity to appoint. That is not what the section says. The HSE will appoint a panel and request the colleges to make nominations and it is then at the discretion of the HSE whether it appoints those nominees to the panel. It is not that the Minister is asking for the colleges to appoint people to the panel. The HSE may pick off that list to top up the panel, not the other way round. That is the problem I have with this. The driving force behind this is the HSE rather than the colleges. If we are saying the colleges are competent in regulating this piece of legislation once it is enacted, why are we not trusting them to appoint members to the review panel that will police the implementation of the legislation from the point of view of appeals and reviews?