Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

I am trying to work out whether the Bill is related to defibrillator services or whether it provides for a broad brush, which would ensure people stay away from accident scenes because differential levels of care would be introduced in circumstances in which it is not appropriate to do so.

I would like to hear the IMO's views on this, since it represents many general practitioners. Perhaps Deputy McManus, as health spokesman for her party, has a greater intuition regarding where that body stands. I would like to know whether the IMO wants this provision enacted. Perhaps the organisation would like to distinguish between general practitioners treating their own patients and other patients. Perhaps it wants to differentiate between members of a group practice treating a patient at an accident scene and members of another practice coming across the same scene.

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