Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy. I am satisfied with the amendments we have before us today and with the proposed amendments on Report Stage. There has been much work in the background, as he will be aware, between my Department and the Department of Justice. We have coronial post mortems and hospital or non-coronial post mortems. We wanted to make sure that it was all being governed in a similar way. The coronial post mortems do not require consent in the way hospital post mortems do. They are different from a consent perspective for all the obvious reasons. The guidelines and so on are being aligned, which is important. Some amendments needed to be made. I believe with the combination of these amendments and the Report Stage amendments that the issues are dealt with.