Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 November 2022

Select Committee on Justice and Equality

Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage

Photo of Pa DalyPa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have slight concerns about these provisions. They relate not so much to the later ones, which relate to analysing drugs, for example, but to where a medical practitioner is giving evidence of what he or she saw. In such cases, will there still be an opportunity for the evidence to be tested in the courts and cross-examined? Often, it is only when evidence arises to the effect that there is an additional medical difficulty that one notes there may be a crossover between the two. Will that still be-----

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