Charlie O'Connor (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)

I am sure somebody knows. It is good to remind ourselves that the Bill makes provision for the regulation of pharmacies, including provision for the dissolution of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland and the setting up of a new Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland, for the establishment, constitution and functions of the new society's council, a new system of registration of qualified pharmacists, druggists and pharmaceutical assistants and pharmacies and for the setting up of new procedures to ensure pharmacists and pharmacy businesses are and continue to be fit to practise, and to provide for related matters. These are matters of interest to people and they are talking about them. I am not saying that when I was in Tallaght village at 8 o'clock this morning people talked to me about the Pharmacy Bill because they did not. They talked to me about other issues, including broken lights, broken bins, Tallaght hospital etc. I am glad people are in the Gallery to hear these debates. I was speaking about democracy in my local school this morning. I went to the school, Drimnagh Castle, which I attended all those years ago. It is a scary experience going into one's old classroom.

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