Dáil debates

Wednesday, 28 March 2007

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages

 

5:00 pm

Photo of Mary HarneyMary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)

This seeks to simply reinstate the existing power under section 62 of the 1978 Act. In case there is confusion, the purpose here is to assign additional functions connected with "registered medical practitioners, their education and training and the practice of medicine by medical practitioners" and "the implementation of any directive or regulation of the European Union concerning the practice of medicine, medical practitioners who practise medicine and the recognition of qualifications of medical practitioners exercising their right to freedom of movement within the European Union". Clearly, any functions assigned to the council relate to these matters.

There is also a provision under section 8(2), which states: "Every order made under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the order is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which the House has sat after that order is laid before it, the order shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under it."

I should have stated at the outset that I am delighted to see the Deputy back. I privately wished him well. He seems to have got back to good health very quickly and I am delighted that is the case.

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