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Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Jim Daly: I move amendment No. 39: In page 86, line 31, to delete "The Council" and substitute the following: "(1) The Council". I want to alert Deputies to the fact this is the amendment we were referring to earlier. In 2008, the HSE introduced a requirement that consultants be registered on the specialist division of the Medical Council register. Consultants appointed prior to 2008 under the...

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Jim Daly: They do not have the specified qualifications for specialist registration.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Jim Daly: They were correctly appointed as consultants, but they missed the window to register at the time. That is the qualification. As I said, they have the necessary experience and training. There is a difficulty which, to be fair, is more than technical. They have to satisfy the Medical Council, but it is important to appreciate that these consultants are properly qualified. They hold their...

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Jim Daly: It is complicated. I know that is the Deputy’s sense of it also. I have heard him speak on the issue many times. The specialist register requires an additional layer of qualifications. It requires certain qualifications for people to be allowed to work as consultants. They include certain training and experience. The people concerned need to work with the Medical Council to have...

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Jim Daly: By way of background, the specialist register was established in 2008. As I said, this cohort includes 30 or 40 consultants. This provision does not reduce standards in any way, shape or form, nor does it make it easier for anybody, but there was a cohort of consultants who did not qualify for inclusion in the specialist register during that period. They were not eligible or missed the...

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Jim Daly: I apologise for not being coherent and clear enough. I understand the importance of the issue and I am trying to understand it. There was a five-year window for consultants who were in place, qualified and had received appropriate training and experience to be included in the specialist register. There is no question about their qualifications, but they did not avail of the opportunity in...

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Jim Daly: That was not correct. I appreciate that the previous contribution I made was more helpful than some of my previous contributions. The reason there was a five-year window was that we might have required applicants to have an additional layer of qualifications to be on the specialist register. The five-year window allowed for that. The people involved were perfectly qualified, trained and...

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Jim Daly: I think the bar has risen since then. I would imagine that it is now higher, if they are applying today. We are just opening the window to allow them to apply because they missed the previous window-----

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Jim Daly: It will certainly not be lower.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Jim Daly: There is no suggestion that we are legislating for 30 or 40 individuals but this change will have an impact on 30 to 40 people who are in place and doing the job. A larger cohort of consultants who may be acting up are not on the specialist register but this does not facilitate them in moving up. This is designed around the 30 or 40 people who have the necessary experience, training and...

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Jim Daly: I must reiterate, categorically, that we are not changing the standards in any way, shape or form. We are not changing the standard that is required in to be admitted onto the specialist register. All we are doing is making provision for a cohort of people who have achieved that standard but who, for a bureaucratic reason rather than a standard, training or experience deficit, were unable...

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Jim Daly: I will get that circulated so that Members can have a better understanding of it between now and Report Stage. I do not want anybody to have a concern around this and I certainly want to assure anyone following this debate that there is absolutely no change to the standards required of healthcare professionals under this legislation.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Jim Daly: I am happy to do that.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Jim Daly: The answer to the first question on the specialist register is "Yes". Regarding the second question on the appointment of consultants, I do not know whether that practice will be changed by this provision. I am not certain about that. I know that there was a judgment in the courts recently related to that. I will get that clarified for the Chairman as part of the aforementioned...

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Jim Daly: I move amendment 40: In page 86, to delete line 34 and substitute the following: “qualification. (2) The Council may, until the 1st anniversary of the commencement of section 86 of the Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Act 2019, register in the Specialist Division a medical practitioner who, being able to be registered in the General Division,...

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Jim Daly: I assure the Deputies that I am happy to oblige.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Jim Daly: I move amendment No. 41: In page 94, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “Application of Parts 7, 8 and 9 to interns and adapters 95. The Act of 2007 is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 56A: “56B. In this Part and in Parts 8 and 9, and notwithstanding the definition of ‘registered medical practitioner’ in...

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Jim Daly: One of the basic principles underpinning the justice system is that justice should not only be done but should be seen to be done. We can debate that principle in this forum or any other, but that is the accepted principle on which this section was based. There are concerns, which the justice system has addressed by making exceptions in childcare cases and so on. No amendment has been...

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Jim Daly: I move amendment No. 42: In page 106, to delete lines 8 to 18 and substitute the following: “(a) by renumbering the existing section as subsection (1), (b) in subsection (1)— (i) by the substitution of “(if satisfied that, in the case of a measure referred to in paragraph (a)(ii), it is in the public interest to do so)” for “, if satisfied that it is...

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Jim Daly: I move amendment No. 43: In page 107, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 91 of Act of 2007 120. Section 91 of the Act of 2007 is amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (7): “(7) Where, arising from the performance of its duty under subsection (1), the Council considers that a medical practitioner...