Jim Walsh (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister of State but I am disappointed that we had to break for one and a half hours, which took away from the time we have to debate these important issues. When we adjourned I was speaking to the amendment and particularly the term "shall be in accordance with current medical practice". It specifically refers to "current" rather than existing medical practice, so when the amendment is read in 2020, it will refer to what is "current" at the time and practised in Ireland. My concern is not to import some of the barbaric practices that occur elsewhere which I have described. Those were not my descriptions, although some people seem to have put that slant on my contributions. These descriptions were set out by medical doctors, similar to Dr. Reilly.