Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----time to train the healthcare professionals.

I am not in a position to accept the specific amendment on "may" versus "shall" for a technical reason. Guidelines will not be required in every circumstance from the Minister and, regarding the second piece, from the healthcare provider. There may not be any additional information in every case. We would be putting an obligation on the Minister of the day and on the health service to provide guidelines where that simply may not be possible. It is not something we can provide for in law.

Deputy Cullinane raised the Part 5 review. Yes, that is for all cancer screening services. His final question is a very interesting one, namely, where we go with the rest of Dr. Scally's report. I might suggest a health committee session on that. It is a broader conversation than we can have here this evening. I had a very good meeting with Dr. Scally on the morning he launched his report. Some of his report was based on the non-amended version of the Bill, so some of the issues he raised have been covered by the addition of amendments. There are some other outstanding issues that he has raised. If the health committee is up for it, we might do a session on that, or perhaps we could all meet informally to discuss it and see where we go. Some of it is within the bounds of this Bill and some of it is not.

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