Liam Twomey (Wexford, Fine Gael)

I move amendment No. 19:

In page 25, lines 25 and 26, to delete all words from and including "the" where it firstly occurs in line 25 down to and including "and" in line 26 and substitute the following:

"a proportion of the members of the Council shall be appointed by the Minister, a proportion shall be appointed through election by the bodies regulated by the Medical Council, and the Council".

Is it possible that a proportion of the council could be elected by the medical profession and another proportion appointed by the Minister, while still maintaining the lay majority? When the Minister was sitting around the dinner table, discussing the Medical Practitioners Bill with her doctor friends——

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