Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 March 2017

Select Committee on Health

Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Committee Stage

2:30 pm

Photo of Jack ChambersJack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

One aspect of this may be worthy of consideration. Let us consider the expression: "the Minister shall consult with such persons as the Minister considers appropriate, which may include". The idea is to proscribe a process of consultation without necessarily ring-fencing the Minister in respect of who that might be. I believe it is worthy of consideration that the Minister would uphold a greater threshold of consultation under the section in question. Would that be more appropriate?

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