Colm Burke (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The amendment is on an extremely important issue. In 2009, Senator Reilly introduced a Private Members' Bill. The then Minister for Health, Mary Harney, at that time in late 2009 or early 2010, undertook to take action on this matter. I subsequently raised the issue in 2012 when I published another Private Members' Bill along similar lines to this Bill. The big concern was about doctors coming into Ireland to do cosmetic surgery. Is the Minister of State satisfied that this amendment ensures that someone coming to the country for a week to perform cosmetic surgery in a private facility would have adequate insurance? That was one of the principal reasons the legislation was brought forward in 2009 and again, by myself, in 2012.