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

I move amendment No. 36:

In page 78, line 28, to delete "The Council" and substitute "Without prejudice to the generality of section 56B, the Council".

This is consequential on amendment No. 41. The Bill provides for the establishment of a register of adapters by the Medical Council. This is a register of doctors who are required to undergo a period of supervised practice and-or academic training that allows an applicant with neutral recognition rights under the professional qualification directive to reach the standard required for registration on the register of medical practitioners. These amendments address an oversight in the Bill and will ensure that doctors on the register of adapters are subject to Parts 7, 8 and 9 of the Medical Practitioners Act. These parts relate to complaints and the imposition of sanctions. These amendments will ensure the full provision of the complaints process will apply to medical practitioners on the register of adapters in the same way as they do to persons on the register of interns and medical practitioners.

The proposed text necessitates the removal of section 95 of the Bill, which relates solely to interns, with replacement by this new text, which relates to interns and adapters.