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Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Can amendment No. 8 be recommitted and taken with amendment No. 7?

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Yes, but we are reverting to Committee Stage. As we are on Report Stage, I am entitled to seek to amend any amendment that is adopted on Committee Stage. If the Leas-Cheann Comhairle wishes to proceed with amendment No. 7, as recommitted, standing alone, I will put my arguments, but I will then seek to move, quite correctly on Report Stage, my amendment No. 8. Amendment No. 7 will need to...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am sorry. I know this is technical, but it is important, given what is involved and how much depends on the Bill being improved. If amendment No. 7 is recommitted, my sense is that it must return to Report Stage and be moved a second time following its discussion on Committee Stage. Is that not the case? I would then be happy to seek to have amendment No. 8 accepted in the context of...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Chair indicate that it will be facilitatory towards the points I have made, namely, that we will revert to Report Stage having discussed the amendment on Committee Stage?

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On Report Stage. I accept that.

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I agree to its recommittal.

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No, we are not at that stage yet.

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are on Committee Stage. The Minister of State is wrong, namely, that the midwifery committee, which is to be established from Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais, cannot have binding decision-making over all matters other than fitness to practice where its role and engagement with the board are concerned. There is a need to accept that, in the passage of the Health and Social Care...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I remember when this Bill was first mooted. My recall is that it did not include any reference to midwifery but dealt only with nursing. The Nurses and Midwives Bill was a later development. Going back to the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005, I always viewed - and still view - midwifery as a stand-alone profession deserving full recognition. This Bill has been awaited for a...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not. I challenge that decision. It is normal for the Chair to indicate a belief the amendment has been carried rather than to declare it carried. I disagree with the Chair's belief and wish to call a vote.

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We were in committee dealing with amendment No. 7. To give some comfort, I do not intend to call a division but is it not the case that we are now back on Report Stage and amendments from Committee Stage must be presented again on Report Stage? I wish to check procedure and it is my understanding that is correct.

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On Committee Stage?

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does that eliminate the need for it to be presented again on Report Stage?

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: My point is not being understood. I will not labour this but we have just recommitted amendment No. 7 to Committee Stage. We have dealt with it and it has been passed. I presume we are now back on Report Stage. Would amendment No. 7, passed on Committee Stage, now be presented again on Report Stage?

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I just wanted to establish the factual position.

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Can I speak to this?

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It has been discussed when, may I ask?

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I would have indicated that I would have withdrawn amendment No. 11 and accepted amendment No. 10. Amendment agreed to.

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is agreed but I ask that the extended numbers be considered.

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I accept that ruling but there were two elements to amendment No. 14 and by looking back now, I think I should have broken it up. In amendment No. 14, I sought four midwives to be provided for in that subsection. I then continued "including one who shall be a self-employed community midwife". That latter point is lost on the basis of the numbers at the outset of my amendment. I do not wish...