Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

My understanding is I have two minutes to respond. I acknowledge that is a constraint we have on Report Stage. Obviously, two minutes are not sufficient to address all the very reasonable issues raised. As I heard it, broadly, many different issues have been raised about many different parts of the Bill. I will confine my comments to Part 5, referenced in this amendment to the Bill, which we are speaking to.

Essentially, what I think I heard expressed, maybe not by everybody but from colleagues around the House, is there is broad support for the Bill and the amendments. That has been stated repeatedly. Members do not have an issue with the Bill or the amendments. Two additional issues are being raised. One is around the programmatic audit and whether it should be anonymised or not. The second is around an obligation within the Bill, as opposed to an obligation within standard operating procedures of the HSE, to inform a patient - a man or a woman because this will apply to all screening services - of his or her right to a patient requested look-back, for which there has been broad support. I will try to deal with those issues. With the Acting Chair's indulgence and the agreement of the House, I will take a little longer-----

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