256. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Transport if he will consider amending the Road Traffic Acts to allow a designated doctor to take a blood sample (details supplied); if he is aware that this is standard practice in many jurisdictions, such as Australia, where blood samples are taken by medical professionals and placed in a container with a tamper-evident seal that has a unique identifying number marked on it and stored in a one-way box for collection by the police; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49182/25]

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256. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Transport if he will consider amending the Road Traffic Acts to allow a designated doctor to take a blood sample (details supplied); if he is aware that this is standard practice in many jurisdictions, such as Australia, where blood samples are taken by medical professionals and placed in a container with a tamper-evident seal that has a unique identifying number marked on it and stored in a one-way box for collection by the police; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49182/25]

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