Frances Fitzgerald (Fine Gael)

I move amendment No. 6:

In page 4, between lines 48 and 49, to insert the following:

"(c) In any application for a medical card under this Act, the Health Service Executive, or any person acting on its behalf, shall not ask any unnecessarily intrusive or invasive questions of any person purporting to be a member of a couple living together as husband and wife for the purposes of this Act.".

This is a protective amendment in terms of how this issue is handled, given the definitions in the Bill.