David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We support all of the amendments. This is an important part of the Bill in terms of the issues that are at the centre of it. We know that the retention of organ parts, against the wishes or knowledge of family members, has been traumatic. So too has the disposal of organ parts without the consent of the family, and in some cases without even the knowledge of the family. These are important issues and I thank the Minister for bringing this Bill forward and for dealing with these issues.

I ask the Minister to give clarity on what the following amendment means because I am assuming it deals with one of the issues I have just talked about. It is amendment No. 57, which proposes:

In page 61, to delete lines 38 to 40, and in page 62, to delete lines 1 and 2 and substitute the following: “(2C) Where the post-mortem examination has been conducted in a hospital, any material removed from the body under a direction in subsection (1) shall be preserved, stored and recorded in accordance with regulations made in that regard by the Minister for Health under section 40of the Act of 2023.”.

Are these future regulations that will come? Is that what is anticipated?

See this speech in context