Holly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

The Minister is saying that it will alter the scope of the Bill. I tabled these amendments because the scope of the Bill is to blatantly only intervene at Tuam. The entire nation thinks that there should be intervention where there are suspicious or unlawful deaths. Therefore, absolutely, we are trying to change the scope of the Bill because it is very narrowly framed. The Minister says that this might restrict the Garda or the coroner in what they are doing. This is an age-old problem. The Garda and the coroner have not intervened. I agree that this should have happened a long time ago, but it has not, and here we are making legislation for something that we never should have needed. The Garda should have intervened, the coroner should have intervened and all of this should have been dealt with but it has not been. That is precisely why we want to include it in the Bill.