Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 35:

In page 59, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following: "(viii) by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of "poor professional performance":

" 'poor professional performance', in relation to a medical practitioner, means a serious error or failure by the practitioner to meet the standards of competence (whether in knowledge and skill or the application of knowledge and skill or both) that can reasonably be expected of medical practitioners practising medicine of the kind practised by the practitioner;",".

We have discussed this amendment in some detail. In the absence of an argument that convinces me the Minister of State will legislate in primary legislation for the Corbally judgment I will re-table the amendment on Report Stage.