Kevin Humphreys (Dublin South East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 22:

In page 9, after line 22, to insert the following:

“Medical assessor – registered nurse

19. Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended in subsection (1)—

(a) in the definition of “medical assessor” (inserted by section 3 of the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2015)—

(i) in paragraph (a), by the deletion of “or”, and

(ii) by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (a):

“(aa) an officer of the Minister who is a registered nurse, or”,

and

(b) by the insertion of the following definition:

“ ‘registered nurse’ has the same meaning as it has in the Nurses and Midwives Act 2011;”.”.

The intention behind this amendment is to add to the departmental adviser's capacity by means of the employment of suitably qualified nurses and to amend the definition of "medical assessor" in the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 to provide for that change.