Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

On that last point, I do not know. A doctor might make a judgment that the person was not in a condition to give a sample. The default in all of this is the blood test, which is the primary test. However, the option is being left to return to other methods if, for some legitimate reason or other, it is not possible to do the blood test.

On the question raised by Deputy Coveney, he is correct that there is not a significant difference in the wording. However, somebody in the Office of the Attorney General felt that the current wording is clearer than the original wording and is better in order to make the provision as clear and unambiguous as possible. It does not change or alter in any way the intent of the original section of the Bill. It is purely a grammatical clean up of the Bill.

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