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Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The paragraph is not naming it as chemical restraint.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Let us examine what we are saying here. For the purposes of this section, "a decision-making representative for a relevant person restrains the relevant person if he or she" and then there are a number of points, including the one read by the Minister of State. Let us say, for the sake of argument, we are talking here about a nurse or a care giver. Is he or she actually called a...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: No, I am not because subsection (c) of section 38(9), which the Minister of State read out to reassure us, is covered by the overarching opening sentence of the subsection, which reads, "For the purpose of this section, a decision-making representative for a relevant person restrains the relevant person if he or she...". What I am trying determine is whether a care assistant, for example, is...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is only covered subject to the opening sentence which I have just read out. A decision-making representative is not allowed to administer a medication but I am asking if a care giver is a decision-making representative. Is a nurse, for example, a decision-making representative?

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Well then, it does not work. It is not adequate.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Does it?

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Maybe the Bill could be amended ---

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I do understand that the Minister of State is getting my point about the chain of authority. This is limited in two ways: first, the Government should amend the words "this section" because one could argue that it applies only in this section; second, a definition is vital and if the phrase “chemical restraint” appears elsewhere the Minister of State should give us the precise...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Of course I have.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: My question refers to a care setting.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is the Minister of State reassuring me that a doctor, nurse or caregiver can never administer drugs that are not necessary?

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: All right. I was just checking.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is being pressed unless we know where we are going. We have got to have a definition.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Teacher Recruitment (10 Dec 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Fáilte romhat a Aire. The matter I raise seeks to discuss with the Minister for Education and Skills teacher appointment and retention figures for primary schools and particularly to ask her to revise teacher appointment guidelines in order that a new primary teacher can be appointed immediately after the 30 September pupil numbers are confirmed by the Department, namely in that same...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Teacher Recruitment (10 Dec 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: For what date? When can that appointment be made?

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Teacher Recruitment (10 Dec 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: They still have to wait for a whole year later.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Teacher Recruitment (10 Dec 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Thank you. I accept there has been some improvement in the appointment and retention figures for small schools. This was welcome given the severe cuts in 2012. However, I need clarification on one issue. In the case of proof of a developing school during the year, how soon can the teacher required be appointed? Can the teacher be appointed during the same school year or must the school...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Teacher Recruitment (10 Dec 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: My recommendation is that the Department should use the OLCS model to appoint the teacher right away, once the 30 September figures are provided, and certainly before 1 January and not a year later. That is my recommendation. Can the Minister of State respond on the point of developing school status. What proof is required for a school to obtain a teacher on that basis? Furthermore, why...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Teacher Recruitment (10 Dec 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is that the following September again?

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Teacher Recruitment (10 Dec 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: My issue concerns when the numbers are on the books and are confirmed on 30 September. Why is the required teacher not appointed right away?