Brendan Ryan (Labour)

I want to clarify something in the definitions in section 2(2), which states: "References in this Act to the sale and supply or the sale or supply of a medicinal product include references to the keeping, preparing, compounding or dispensing of the medicinal product." I have no difficulty with the provision in respect of preparing, compounding and dispensing, but what of carers who give medicines to people who do not have their whole faculties? They are keeping medicines. I am not trying to be awkward. We are trying to maximise home help services. Home helpers ensure that medicines are kept out of the reach of elderly persons, for example.