Alex White (Labour)

It is a long list of amendments which propose to amend different sections. It seems they are from the same perspective, which allows for the possibility of the Health Service Executive or any accredited agency authorised by the adoption authority to conduct assessments of suitability and so on. I have not studied the amendments particularly closely but they seem to raise a similar enough point to that which I raise in my amendment. It may well be that the amendments across a number of different sections of the Bill may offer a vehicle for the Minister of State to address the issue we have debated for the last few minutes, which is to see whether we can have a scenario where applications can be dealt with more quickly and perhaps more efficiently without undermining the standards we all want to uphold. There is great merit in the amendments and I am interested to know what the Minister of State proposes to say on them.