Liam Twomey (Wexford, Fine Gael)

The Medical Council would have agreed with many aspects of the competence assurance proposals, as regards specialist and general registration, because so much of this is important. Did it also agree there should be strong ministerial control over policy and direction and see this as a positive issue, or did it have concerns as regards the removal of the council's independence to such a significant degree? I am not talking about the lay majority stuff, but rather about——

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