Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 27:

In page 46, to delete lines 16 to 27 and substitute the following:

“(a) procedures for the retention, storage, disposal or return of material removed from the body as part of the coronial or non-coronial post-mortem examination, where such action is consistent with guidelines but shall not include tissue samples held on blocks or slides, trimmings or bodily fluids removed during the examination;

(b) the arrangements to be put in place by hospitals for—

(i) the management of authorisations (within the meaning of section 2 of the Act of 1962) under section 33F of that Act,

(ii) the designation of persons or classes or persons responsible for the management of such authorisations, and

(iii) the carrying out of the authorisations received from the coroner in that regard;

(c) incidents and particulars of incidents to be notified to the Authority;

(d) prescribing the retention periods for records and samples arising from non-coronial post-mortem activities, each of which periods (other than in the case of records and samples which are toxicology samples, trimmings or bodily fluids) shall not be less than 5 years;”.

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