Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am sure Deputy Smith did not mean it this way, but I do not think anyone here is trying to have it both ways. I think we are all trying to ensure we get the best legislation we can and achieve what the Oireachtas committee tried to achieve and what the general scheme ultimately, in my view, tried to achieve. I would be happy, when I brief members of the health committee as to why this was the rationale, to do so with the experts I have. Deputy Smith would argue that by putting this in, I am tying the hands of medical practitioners. I very respectfully argue that by not putting it in, the advice to me is that one would be accidentally tying their hands.