David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I accept that is what the Minister is doing and that this is not a policy decision of his. The advice is the advice and he has to act on clinical and medical advice. It strikes me that a more sensible approach would have been for progressive disorders to have remained subject to a clinical recommendation by a specialist. That probably would have been a better way to approach it. As Deputy Shortall said, concerns have been raised. It is our job to raise them. I assume the Minister will accept the medical advice he has been given, which I accept has been given to him in good faith. I have to put on record, however, the concern that has been expressed to me through these exchanges about these amendments, which I presume the Minister will press.

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