Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 4:

In page 32, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 27 of Act of 2005

26. Section 27 of the Act of 2005 is amended, in subsection (3), by the deletion of paragraph (e).”.

This is another technical amendment flagged on Committee Stage. The Minister of State brought forward an amendment on that Stage to further amend the Health and Social Care Professionals Act. The amendment specifically sought to remove the requirement for the council to refer all sanction recommendations from the fitness to practise committee to its registration board. At that stage, the Minister of State indicated that a further technical amendment would be required on Report Stage to delete the recommendation-making function of the registration boards contained in section 27 of the Health and Social Care Professionals Act, as this had been inadvertently omitted from the Bill. This amendment deletes the relevant section of the Act. It is a purely technical amendment to fix an error.

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