Results 9,701-9,720 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: There is.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: The Bill provides for this in a case where, for example, a pharmacist would agree to a different process such as mediation rather than going before the fitness to practise committee. It provides for this as a result of the outcome of such a process.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: It is understood. I note it is not explicitly stated and perhaps I can consider that for Report Stage. It is clearly understood that one would not send the society notice of a set of additional functions without having consulted and spoken to its members, checking if there is the necessary capacity and other related issues.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: We do not want to be too prescriptive. Normal relationships can deal with some of these matters.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: We are here to represent the public. How does one consult the public? Consultation is often an excuse to do nothing.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: After consulting the public.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: Let us not be so prescriptive. Clearly, any extension of functions, I imagine, would obviously be done after fairly wide consultation. I cannot anticipate off the top of my head a situation that could ariseââ
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: ââwhere the members of the society would wake up one morning and suddenly have a host of new functions.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: It is the formulation and testing of experimental curricula. I am advised it is the education departments of universities that will be encompassed by that provision.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: The pharmacy schools.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: That is the idea.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: I have.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: Regarding the nine members, if that needs to be clarified, we must clarify it. It is the intention that they will be elected. In the event of only nine people putting themselves forward, obviously there would not be an election but I envisage more than nine will come forward. There is a good deal of interest in being involved with the society. Regarding the issue of appointment by the...
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: Serving Members of the Oireachtas may not be members of the council of the society. I have strong opinions on this issue because I regard it as a conflict for a Member of the Oireachtas to be a member of a society. The first duty of a member of a society is to that society, whether that is the Medical Council or any other regulatory body and therefore the Schedule of the Act precludes...
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: It was an oversight on my part which I knew the Senator would notice.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: To clarify the position for the Senator, it is the case with both this Bill and the Medical Practitioners Bill that a person does not need to be a member of the council to be on a committee. Members may be recruited.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: The burden on members of a council such as this and the Medical Council, of which Senator Feeney has experience, is such that it is almost impossible to find either professional or lay people to participate. It was stated to me recently that no private sector employer would grant an employee time off to participate in some of these regulatory bodies because a fitness to practise hearing can...
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: On this council?
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: They could be appointed by one of the nominees but they are not specified in the legislation.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: I may have misunderstood the Senator. I thought the Senator was suggesting that the Bill should specify a medical practitioner.