Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I am sorry I have had to go in and out of the committee room. I may ask a couple of questions that were asked before. Before I go into the budgetary allocations, the Minister of State raised the issue of telehealth. What regulations is the Department preparing to oversee the roll-out of telehealthcare? We had the Minister for Health before us in recent weeks and, as we know, in an Irish context, there are no such regulations. There have been criticisms from the Care Quality Commission in the UK about some of the dangers of telemedicine such as the development of inappropriate prescribing and the lack of part of the clinical examination that occurs. What regulations are being developed to match the Department's ambition with telemedicine?