Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 46:

In page 56, to delete lines 29 to 40, and in page 57, to delete lines 1 to 19 and substitute the following:

“ “Provision of information to Authority for purposes of monitoring compliance with Part 3of Act of 2023 and relevant sections of Act of 1962 in accordance with subsection (1)(o) and (1)(p) of section 8

12A.(1) A hospital, within the meaning of section 38of the Act of 2023, at which post-mortem activities or coronial post-mortem examinations take or will take place shall, as soon as practicable after the commencement of this section and in any event, not later than 3 months after such commencement, notify the Authority in writing of the following, namely:

(a) the name and particulars of the nominated person nominated in that behalf pursuant tosection 52of the Act of 2023;

(b) in the case of a hospital where post-mortem activities or coronial post-mortem examinations take place or will take place, the name and address of the hospital;

(c) in the case of a hospital where post-mortem activities or coronial post-mortem examinations take place or will take place, the details of post-mortem activities or coronial post-mortem examinations that take place or will take place on the premises.

(2) Where the hospital changes in a material way any of the matters notified under subsection (1), the hospital shall as soon as possible and, in any event, not later than 28 days after the material changes, inform the Authority in writing and provide it with details of the changes.

(3) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Authority may require the Executive or the hospital at which the post-mortem activities or coronial post-mortem examinations take place or will take place to provide it within such reasonable period as the Authority may require with any information or statistics the Authority requires in order to determine the level of compliance by the Executive or hospital with Part 3of the Act of 2023.

(4) Where a person receives a request under subsection (3) from the Authority, he or she shall comply with such request.”,”.

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