Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)

While I am reluctant to open up a debate on the Health Insurance Act 1994, this is a Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill and, from that point of view, it covers a fairly wide range of issues. Notwithstanding the reason put forward by the Minister, which was put in somewhat technical terms, I will venture to ask him to give a practical example of a difficulty that has arisen to give rise to this amendment. We discussed this on Second Stage and Committee Stage but we are now back to a very technical and, dare I say, complex reading of an amendment which might have some practical application to which the Minister might advert.

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