Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Senator may have raised the issue before. It relates to a specific procedure that was covered by health insurers and now it is not. I do not really understand how that pertains to this amendment. The nature of health insurance is that there is a minimum level of benefits that every package must cover, with anything beyond that a variable. Anybody who has tried to get health insurance could see that some hospitals are covered with some packages but others are not. If the procedure is not covered in the minimum benefits package, I am not sure how the amendment would achieve anything.