Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 43:

In page 42, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following subsection:“(16) A service provider shall operate in compliance with section 9 where applicable.”.

The section deals with the arrangements with service providers. There are a number of references in its 15 subsections to requirements on the service provider to comply with requests under section 56(8), but there is no reference anywhere to section 9. That is the genesis of the amendment which proposes a new subsection that states: "A service provider shall operate in compliance with section 9 where applicable". That would mean the best interests and views of the child would be implied. This is not referred to in the 15 subsections regarding service providers and should be reflected in the section.