Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

In terms of the record, again the danger might be that it is a record of vaccination, but we can come back to vaccination trials on Report Stage. There is something different in terms of the records of vaccine trials versus the records of routine vaccinations. That might need elaboration, but I am not going to press the amendment.

Because it is such an interlocking Bill, there are questions over where many of the amendments get captured. The provision as I outlined it is quite wide in terms of those involved in care, but it is because the Schedule is insufficiently wide, if the Minister knows what I mean. The other way that some of the concerns could be addressed, for example in the case of psychiatric institutions, is by addressing it in terms of the Schedule. I know the Minister sees the Schedule as the catch-all, but in its current incarnation it is not really a catch-all. I have given one example, but there are others that are not currently covered by the Schedule and we do not have a guarantee that they will be. That is where I am coming from. With a lot of the amendments, it is an attempt to come at it from one or two different places. I am very open to discussion. I do believe we are trying to get to somewhere similar and it is a matter of what tools will get us there. I am not going to press amendment No. 5.