Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have acknowledged the fact that I amended the Bill in Dáil Éireann to include student nurses and student midwives. Senator Bacik outlined for Senator Mullen where this had been done in the legislation and he has accepted this. As for medical practitioners, including student medical practitioners, the advice I have received indicates that the definition included in the Bill provides assurance that all medical practitioners who might be asked to carry out or participate in any way in a termination of pregnancy are covered by section 22. Therefore, no further amendment of the wording set out in that section is necessary to provide the protection Senator Ó Domhnaill is seeking.