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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Am I? What are we doing next week, Chair?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Oh good, yes, we are. I will see members again next week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Specifically with regard to the surgical hubs, we are sanctioning the staff now. We are finalising the complement. We do not need the surgeons, because surgeons will come from their existing work and use the facilities, but we do need administrative support. We obviously need theatre nurses, who are rare as hens' teeth in Ireland and across the world. We are sanctioning the recruitment of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Senator for his questions. I will make inquiries about the pandemic recognition payments to which he referred. The vast majority of payments have now been made but there is an outstanding number of section 39 organisations and private providers for which the moneys still need to be processed and paid to staff. I assume the Senator refers to residential services rather than day...

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I am happy to move straight to the amendments, if that suits the Cathaoirleach and committee members.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: They just relate to numbers. Various subsections and sections change as part of the amendments.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 2: In page 6, line 3, to delete “subsection (2)” and substitute “subsections (2) and (4A)”

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 3: In page 6, line 10, after “State” to insert “, a Member State or the United Kingdom”. Social care work is a designated profession under the Health and Social Care Professions Act 2005. The profession, as members will be aware, is due to be regulated by CORU in November this year. This Bill, as initiated, proposed amendments to the...

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: The nature of unforeseen consequences is that it is difficult for me to say that they will arise. We have to endeavour, as with all of the healthcare professions, to make sure they are well regulated, well supported, feature continuous professional development as part of that and that we as legislators make sure that the regulators – the professional bodies and training bodies...

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Can the Deputy give me more information on that?

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: We are very much into amendments Nos. 4 and 5 here. I will be guided by the Cathaoirleach. We can discuss it now.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Is that okay? I am fine to discuss it now but this is very much covered by amendments Nos. 4 and 5. The proposed approach is that the CORU will open the period of registration from November and there will be a two-year period when social care workers can register. There are a few different routes to registration. There are competency-based exams; the professional qualifications which are...

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 4: In page 6, line 16, to delete “and”. Amendment No. 4 is consequential on No. 5. The Bill as initiated sought to remove a provision in CORU’s legislation which would allow social care workers to seek registration on the basis of their employer's opinion of their proficiency during the grandfathering period. That speaks directly to the...

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Yes. I beg the Deputy's pardon.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: That is a slightly different issue but I hear the Deputy's point on the amendment. I share her concern and I interrogated the issue at length with officials. Essentially, the following happened. In the Bill as we discussed it on Second Stage, the employer route was not included. In order to comply with the EU directive post Second Stage, there was a public consultation. Social care...