Brian Hayes (Fine Gael)

The Minister must be complimented on moving significantly on an amendment in regard to death certificates that she accepted in the other House. That happened because the legislation was being discussed on the floor of the other House and groups had to submit their views on it. That is not necessarily the best way to do business in this technical area.

To return to the proposal to which Senator Henry alluded, if we had this type of an advisory body working on a 12 month basis, we would not be dealing at this stage with dilemmas that arise such as the one to which I referred to in regard to death certificates, on which the Minister moved as a result of some media publicity and other lobbying. We should not view issues of tension and difficulty between the GRO and many of these organisations as a bureaucratical nightmare about to happen every time they enter into discussions; they are only there presumably to help and advise the Government and the GRO in its important work because they are the people who use it on a constant basis.