Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

These regulations are underpinned by the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005. The new board will meet and make recommendations to the Health and Social Care Professionals Council and the Minister on protected title, qualifications, training programmes and so on. Where people do not comply or remain outside of this process and they continue to advertise on, say, a plaque on a wall that they are counsellors or psychotherapists, what sanctions will apply? Are sanctions in this regard contained in the Health and Social Care Professionals Act or elsewhere? For example, will this be deemed a criminal offence or will a person just be struck off by the Health and social Care Professionals Council?