Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 September 2019

Select Committee on Health

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage

Photo of Jim DalyJim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy must remember the point I made earlier about the threshold for a fitness to practise committee to sit and investigate. We are not in the territory of minor incidents here. This is somebody’s fitness to practise being questioned and that cannot happen or be entertained by the Medical Council unless the case is deemed by the council to be serious. To go back to my analogy of parking tickets and drink driving, parking tickets will not enter this process because they will not get through the first stage. This is as much about the registrant’s right because his or her fitness to practise is being challenged.

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