Colm Burke (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister. I support his comments on the amendments. As a legal practitioner, if a doctor asked me whether he should issue such certificates, my immediate response would be that he or she should not because it would leave them wide open to being joined in proceedings at a later stage if something went wrong. Doctors would be very reluctant to give such a certificate to anyone because the vast majority of GPs do not support the use of sunbeds and would decide not to get involved.

The fact has been ignored that people travel to other countries. We are tightening up on the use of sunbeds but the same level of regulation does not exist in many other European countries.