Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 49:

In page 15, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following:"(2) An application to the Circuit Court under this Act may be made--

(a) in such office of, or attached to, the Circuit Court within the circuit concerned,

(b) in such combined court office (within the meaning of section 14 of the Courts and Court Officers Act 2009) within the circuit concerned, or

(c) in such office of the Courts Service, within the circuit concerned, designated by the Courts Service for the purpose of this Act,

as may be prescribed by rules of court.".

This amendment provides that rules of court can designate the court offices within each circuit to which applications to the Circuit Court can be made. In moving this, I wish to notify the committee of my intention to table Report Stage amendments to section 4 on the manner in which the Bill addresses the issues of withdrawal of artificial life-sustaining treatment, non-therapeutic sterilisation and donation of an organ. I am awaiting legal advice on this section.