Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move:

In page 25, line 35, to delete “a hospital or other institution” and substitute “an institution”

This amendment is proposed on the advice of the Parliamentary Counsel to avoid possible confusion and even non-reporting of deaths in Schedule 2 as inserted by section 28. My concern is that referring to a hospital or other institution in point 23(a) of the schedule of reportable deaths that there could be an issue regarding interpretation. It might be interpreted as suggesting that other references to an institution in the Bill excluded a hospital unless that specific mention was made.

This Schedule, which section 28 inserts as a second Schedule to the principal Act contains a list of specific examples of the types of deaths that must be reported to a coroner under new sections 16(a) and 16(b) of the principal Act.