Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 March 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion

9:00 am

Ms Deirdre Walsh:

On regulation and how the Minister is proposing to move forward, what he outlined in the body of work is that we are already working on the regulation of counsellors and psychotherapists, so we will ensure that we will bring the crisis pregnancy counsellors within that registration process and regulation as we move forward. His point is that - looking ahead - when they are registered counsellors and psychotherapists, the 1995 Act could be amended to ensure that only registered practitioners would give the advice on crisis pregnancy. That could be broader than just counsellors and psychotherapists. It could include registered professions such as doctors, nurses, psychologists and so forth. That is closing the loop, as it were, whereby one registers them and then one brings it within the scope of the health information Act.

Ms Geraldine Luddy might pick up on the crisis pregnancy information.

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