David Norris (Independent)

That certainly makes it broader than we assumed because one of the problems we were thinking about is private hospitals – which have an excellent record – such as the Blackrock Clinic. What was concerning those of us on this side of the argument was that groups such as those to which I refer might be outside the operation of the law. However, it seems that the Minister of State's position is that they are very clearly within it or at least that there is a strong possibility that the courts might interpret this.