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Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (20 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: Question 576: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA jobs created in County Wexford on a yearly basis since 1997 to date in 2007; the way this compares on average with other counties here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9740/07]

Written Answers — Official Engagements: Official Engagements (21 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: Question 91: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of United Nations meetings that he will attend over the coming three month period; the issues he hopes to address at these meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10413/07]

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (21 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: Question 124: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if all Irish Aid spending from 2004 has been evaluated by the EAU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10424/07]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (22 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: Question 60: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when changes in education legislation relating to discipline will be enacted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10773/07]

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: In concluding her speech, the Minister said: "The provisions in the Bill are intended to put the regulation of the profession of pharmacy in the State on a firm, modern and robust footing, having regard to the need to protect, maintain and promote the health and safety of the public." It is interesting that she used those fine words when introducing the Bill. Elsewhere in her speech she...

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: The Minister should propose a patient safety authority.

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: The Minister thinks she can do it.

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: I did not interrupt the Minister during the nonsense in her speech. It is time she accepted——

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: What is patient safety about? It is about protecting patients. The Minister asks me to deal with the legislation, but she does not even know completely what it is about. She brought amendments to the Bill through the Seanad yesterday but she tells me in her speech today there will be another draft of amendments when she brings the Bill to Committee Stage in the Dáil.

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: What is going wrong on the Minister's side of the House that she cannot publish a Bill without having to——

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: The Minister has changed the substance of the Bill dramatically.

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: That is what is wrong here. The Minister is not sure what she is doing in the Bill. I have concerns with the Minister's contribution on the Bill. The profession needs to be regulated and the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland will do a great job in that regard. I note the Minister has no plans to introduce any form of competence assurance for pharmacists — once a pharmacist is registered,...

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: An interest in which practice? Is it in the pharmacy?

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: What will be prohibited? What are the Minister's concerns?

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: The Minister needs to say what she means by that. She also needs to state what arrangements will exist for the doctor and pharmacist if private companies are involved. The Minister and the public are well aware that one of the most senior advisers to Professor Drumm who was involved in drawing up how the HSE will be involved in primary care in the future is now working for a major player...

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: As I previously pointed out to the Minister, when the public talks about the issues we are discussing, it probably does not understand the roles of the PSI and the Irish Pharmaceutical Union and the role of the Irish Medical Organisation compared with that of the Medical Council. When we talk about this and put information into the public domain, we must be crystal clear. What was envisaged...

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: The Minister is applying blame in the same way which would be applied in a court case. The judge decides on a proportion of blame to be applied to individuals. Does the PSI have the ability to apply blame? Can it apply blame on an 80:20 or 70:30 basis or must blame be applied purely on a 50:50 basis?

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: What the Minister is saying is that if the business is ultimately responsible for doing something wrong, the PSI will say that both the pharmacist and the corporation are doing something wrong.

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: So this is the simple sanction applied by the PSI and after that, it is up to the person and the company involved to appeal the decision and let the courts deal with the issue?

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: Does the Minister envisage a whistleblowing section for this legislation so that if a pharmacist felt that what he or she was doing within a corporation was wrong, he or she could complain privately to the PSI that he or she was being asked to do something he or she felt was inappropriate? Could the PSI deal with this in a preventative fashion rather than sanction the pharmacist who made the...