Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I wish to speak to amendment No.17. I am conscious that we have focused on the issue of "illegal" but amendment No. 17 and some of the other Sinn Féin amendments in this group simply suggest that the word "information" would be replaced by "records" so as to remove any linguistic ambiguity. The aim is to ensure that people's medical information is considered their personal data and that they have a fundamental right to access, not just the information contained in a record but the record itself. This has been addressed by the Minister. He has spoken about the fact that there is an effort to provide the original records. Another instance of it relates to line 17 and again, while I do not wish to dwell on it further, I wanted to speak to it in case we do need to return to it on Report Stage.