Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)

I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on this Bill. While I have some concerns about the Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010, to which I will refer later in my discussion, in principle, I welcome it. The Bill serves to enhance the protection of the public in its dealings with nurses and midwives and to ensure the practice of nursing and midwifery with a level of integrity which, I believe, is already in place but to ensure it continues in future. The Bill is supposed to provide for a modern, efficient, transparent and accountable system for the regulation of the nurses and midwifery professions.

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