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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: Section 9 of the principal Act relates to membership of the health and social care professional council. This amending section is crucial to the continuing function of the council as it will allow the Minister to continue to appoint professional members to vacancies arising on the council until such time as all registration boards that are established under the legislation have held...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin asked, very reasonably, for an update. Two councils have been set up, namely, the social workers board and the radiographers board. I have just signed the regulations for speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and dieticians. There are now five councils. We are well advanced in the case of physiotherapy and hope to have the...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: I completely accept Deputy Dan Neville's bona fides and share his concerns. However, I have to face the reality that under Schedule 3 to the Act, the qualifications for each of the named groups are defined. There is no such definition of psychological therapist. Even the term "psychological therapist" cuts across psychiatry and psychology. There are legal implications for psychiatrists...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: I concur completely with the Chairman's comments and his sentiment. I know this is the view of the committee. I ask members to bear with me. I would be happy to come back to the committee to give regular updates on how we are progressing with this.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: We will not have the qualifications defined by then. HETAC has an important role, and that is the difficulty we have. In a rush to do things which have been hanging around for years-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: I understand the anxiety about this and the need to expedite progress, and I will do so to the best of my ability. I will encourage HETAC, through my colleague at the Department of Education and Skills, to get on with it in a much more aggressive fashion than perhaps has been the case heretofore. I cannot walk the Government, the committee and myself into a legal mess to the detriment of...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: To address Deputy Kelleher's issue, I agree 100% with his sentiment. HETAC has been formally asked to examine and address this issue and to come back with a report and give us a standard qualification that people must meet. This is what everybody in the room is concerned about. With regard to Deputy Dowds's question, I do not think his request is in my gift. It would require a legal...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: We can do that, certainly.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: We will do so on Report Stage. I will report back on the advice we receive from the Department of Justice and Equality and the Office of the Attorney General. With regard to Deputy Ó Caoláin's concern about speech and language therapy, this is a major problem and something which also applies to physiotherapists. They achieve 550 points in their leaving certificates and study for...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: Technically, I am hidebound. We must reach agreement on a protected title for these people and a basic standard qualification. Then we can move this very quickly. I will do everything I can with regard to the Department of Health and the Department of Education and Skills and HETAC to get this expedited.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: I want to reassure the Deputy and the committee on this. HETAC was not working on this issue at the time. It started working on it this year.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: The Deputy would have to ask Mr. Moloney. I do not know. This Government will be in office for at least three and a half more years, during which time members will have an opportunity to bring to me to task on this on a regular basis, which I welcome. Like others, I want to see this expedited. It is true that the wheels of government can be frustratingly slow at times. However, we are...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: Perhaps in light of the party of which the Deputy who made the comments is a member, this might also be another good Friday.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: I am not too sure which sections deal with those issues. On the fee issue-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: I will deal first with Deputy Conway's issue. I am aware the Deputy was formerly a social worker. I am sure the Deputy is equally aware I was a GP for 25 years. As such, I can speak at a personal level about this issue. I removed my name from the medical register for the reasons outlined by the Deputy, namely, I did not believe I could do my current job and also maintain my continual...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: The person will have to achieve a standard that allows him or her to be listed on the register. Where the person does not achieve the standard he or she will be able to get on the register and there ends the matter. Section 7(a) and New Section 38(1) provide that a person returning to practice must satisfy the registration board that he or she meets the criteria and fulfils the conditions...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: On the language issue, that is something which I take seriously. While I have a note before me on the issue I will try to give Deputy Dowds a response specific to my own previous profession. I always found it astonishing that while some people with no basic English can come here on the basis that they are EU citizens people from South Africa, America and Australia, whose first language is...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: Yes. I am coming to that. Section 7(b) amends section 38(1)(d) to provide that all applicants for registration must satisfy the registration board that they have the language skills necessary to practise.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: It also provides for the testing of linguistic competence of non-Irish persons.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: They will have an assessment.