Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)

I move amendment No. 68:

In page 80, lines 24 and 25, after "practitioners" to insert the following:

"pursuant to a professional competence scheme applicable to the practitioners concerned".

I gave a commitment to Deputies McManus and Twomey that I would introduce amendments on Report Stage linking section 91, in which the Medical Council is required to establish a professional competence scheme or schemes. The purpose of these amendments is to make clear that the duties of medical practitioners and employers, including the HSE, relate to any such professional competence scheme established under section 91 so that there is no doubt about it.

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