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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: The Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013, which came into operation on the 24th of June, will introduce a system of generic substitution and reference pricing. Under the Act, the Irish Medicines Board (IMB) is responsible for the assessment for interchangeability of medicines. The IMB will review an initial 20 active substances, which equates to approximately 1,500 individual...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Reimbursement Service Payments (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: I presume the Deputy is referring to the Methadone Treatment Scheme. Payments in respect of the Methadone Treatment Scheme are made to General Practitioners (GPs) by the HSE's Primary Care Reimbursement Service (PCRS) in accordance with the provisions of their contract for service which they hold with the HSE. Consequently, the HSE has been requested to provide the specific information to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Policy (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: I have been informed by the HSE that the Social Inclusion Care Group has a strategy/policy implementation remit for a range of areas which includes drug treatment. The Care Group is under the direction of the National Primary Care and Social Inclusion Manager and governance is via the National Social Inclusion Governance Group (SIGG). The National Addiction Advisory Governance Group (NAAGG)...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: As the Deputy will be aware, I announced details of a series of measures last December arising from a review of Drugs Task Forces, in order to better equip them to respond to the current pattern of substance misuse. These measures included the extension of the remit of the Task Forces to include alcohol addiction and the establishment of a National Coordinating Committee for Drug and Alcohol...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: Pharmacists play an important role in the delivery of healthcare in Ireland, including in ensuring that patients are provided with safe and appropriate medicines and advice, and have the potential to play a central role in the development and delivery of our health services. In recent years, community pharmacists have broadened their range of services to include flu vaccinations, emergency...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: The first grouping takes in amendments Nos. 1, 3 and 10. Section 2 of the Bill provides for the commencement of the Bill's provisions and amendment No. 1 made by the Dáil related to the commencement provisions in respect of the private inpatient charge, together with technical amendments regarding other commencement provisions. To briefly summarise the technical changes to section 2,...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: Amendments Nos. 2 and 9 were made in the Dáil to clarify the current situation that maternity services for women are provided by or on behalf of the HSE, both in a hospital context and in a community or home setting. This is in line with current practice in hospitals and in the community. The majority of women choose to have their babies delivered in hospitals. Therefore, it is...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: Amendments Nos. 4 to 8, inclusive and 16 relate to the deletion of section 18 and the Fourth Schedule of the Bill, and consequential amendments to delete the reference to the Seventh Schedule in section 13. These deletions were necessary following confirmation by Swinford District Hospital that it does not have any patients for whom charges payable in respect of inpatient services provided...

Seanad: Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: I am taking the Bill on behalf of the Minister for Justice and Equality who is away on EU business. A total of 29 amendments, all of which were Government amendments, were proposed and approved on Committee and Report Stages in the Dáil. All of them are technical or refinements of the provisions of the Bankruptcy Act 1988 or the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 to facilitate the...

Seanad: Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: Group 4 concerns miscellaneous provisions of the Personal Insolvency Act 2012. There are two amendments, Nos. 8 and 20. Amendment No. 8 inserts a new section 21A in the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 regarding the retention of information by the insolvency service to the effect that, notwithstanding the Data Protection Act 1988, the insolvency service shall retain such information or data...

Seanad: Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: Group 5 concerns amendments to the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 in regard to debt relief notices. There are two amendments, Nos. 9 and 12. Amendment No. 9 makes two changes to section 27 of the Personal Insolvency Act 2012, which deals with the initiation of a debt relief notice process by a debtor. A new subsection (4) extends the provisions of the previous subsection by now adding that...

Seanad: Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: Group 6 concerns provisions in regard to the prescribed financial statement, which is a critical requirement in the new debt resolution processes in the Personal Insolvency Act 2012. Amendment No. 10 contains technical amendments to section 29(2) of the Personal Insolvency Act 2012. The new paragraph (c) in subsection (2) in regard to the prescribed financial statement completed by the...

Seanad: Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: The subject matter of amendments Nos. 11, 17, 18, 21 and 22 relates to court consideration of applications for the new debt resolution processes. Amendment No. 11 amends section 31 of the Personal Insolvency Act 2012, which concerns the supporting documentation that the insolvency service must furnish to the appropriate court when making the application for a debt relief notice. The...

Seanad: Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: Group 8 concerns amendments to the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 in regard to personal insolvency practitioners. There are three amendments, Nos. 14, 15 and 16, in this group. Amendment No. 14 limits the scope of section 49 of the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 to the initial appointment by a debtor of a personal insolvency practitioner to represent him or her and to noting the termination or...

Seanad: Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: Group 9 concerns amendments to the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 in regard to the process and procedures governing those situations where a variation of the terms of a debt settlement arrangement or personal insolvency arrangement is requested. We are dealing with amendments Nos. 19 and 23 in that regard. Amendment No. 19 concerns section 82, variation of a debt settlement arrangement, and...

Seanad: Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: This is the final group of amendments. It concerns amendments Nos. 25 and 26 which relate to regulation of personal insolvency practitioners. Amendment No. 25replaces the current section 161 of the Personal Insolvency Act with regard to the making of regulations relating to the activities of persons authorised to be personal insolvency practitioners. The changes to the section, while not...

Seanad: Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: When this issue was raised in the House by Senator Jillian van Turnhout and others, the Minister lent his support to the view that the matter should be dealt with as speedily as possible. He pointed out that the issue was complex and did require careful consideration to ensure that any proposal, such as was canvassed at the time, would correctly balance the constitutional right of the...

Seanad: Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: Might I request approval from the House that two minor technical corrections be made to the Bill in addition to those that have been considered?

Seanad: Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: I would appreciate that. I emphasise these are simply minor technical corrections to correct two typographical misprints in the Bill. The reference in section 14, to "column (3) of Part 1", should read, "column (4) of Part 1", and the reference to in section 15, to "column (3) of Part 2", should read, "column (4) of Part 2". I would request that these corrections be made.

Seanad: Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Alex White: I will have to get back to the Senator on that.