Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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I move amendment No. 2:

In page 5, line 11, after “board” to insert the following:“, on or after the date on which section 6(b) of the Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Act 2017 comes into operation and not later than 31 December 2019,”.

The amendment simply calls for the insertion of the line “, on or after the date on which section 6(b) of the Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Act 2017 comes into operation and not later than 31 December 2019”. The amendment seeks to provide an end date.

There are ongoing discussions between the Minister and various parties on a number of considerations in this Bill. To be helpful, I will not press my amendment today but I will reintroduce it again on Report Stage should the discussions be unsuccessful. I am quite hopeful, given the discussions that we have had this morning, that they will succeed. I have adopted the same attitude to the four other amendments that I have tabled.