Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 28 January 2016
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children
Draft Regulations on the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005: Motion
9:30 am
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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I think the Deputy is right. Up to recently, the only professions that were in any way regulated were doctors and nurses, and now we are working our way down through other professions. One area that we have committed to regulate, which will be very complicated, is that of counsellors and psychotherapists, but in the period of the next Government we will be looking at other professions, and one of them will be audiologists.