Seanad debates

Friday, 17 December 2004

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2004: Committee and Remaining Stages.

 

3:00 pm

Fergal Browne (Fine Gael)

I move amendment No. 11:

In page 5, line 20, to delete "the".

Amendment No. 11 is technical, but amendment No. 12 states, "In page 5, lines 20 and 21, to delete "referred to in the definition of 'in patient services' in section 51." The definition of an inpatient service is circular, chasing its own tail. Subsection (11) begins by derogating from section 51, but in the course of the definition there is reference to what section 51 contains. On the one hand, there is a derogation from the definition in the section, but on the other hand, the Bill incorporates some aspects of it. We have tabled the amendment to find out which it is to be. The Minister and Government cannot have it both ways.

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