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Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The Government selected candidates.

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 2: In page 9, to delete line 9 and substitute the following: "(g) physiotherapist or physical therapist". I am not sure amendment No. 32 is consequential as the amendments are variations on the same thing. Senator Browne's amendment is a more precise expression of what I intended to achieve with amendment No. 2. We have been intensively lobbied since Committee Stage by...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: If I were rewriting my speech, I would be quite happy to take the Minister of State's script, since he made the case that there is a profession called "physical therapy" and admits that the Department of Health and Children does not understand it. He says that five or six months after Committee Stage, it has not replied to requests from his Department for further information. It has a title...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 3: In page 9, line 17, after "subsection (1)," to insert "and in particular shall, within the period of 12 months from the passing of this Act, so designate the profession of counsellor or therapist,". The biggest and potentially most dangerous unregulated profession in the area of social and health care of which I am aware consists of the myriad counsellors and...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I have never been speechless in my life, but I am heading in that direction. One sometimes receives answers which tempt one to become speechless. The list of professions in section 4 includes psychologists. There are good reasons for clearly defining in law the qualifications which should be required if one wishes to be registered as a psychologist. Such reasons relate to public well-being,...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I am not sure why the Labour Party's amendment No. 5 has been grouped with amendment No. 4, but it is not a critical matter. Section 9(4) states that "the Minister may consult with any organisations that he or she considers appropriate" when he or she is appointing a chairperson or an ordinary person under this Bill. The mind boggles at the suggestion that the Minister could make such...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 5: In page 13, line 1, to delete "may" and substitute "shall".

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I second the amendment. Senator Henry makes a valid point. Standards should be achieved, not aspired to. Quality assurance involves being as good as the standard that is set. It cannot be merely fostered. People must be assured that standards are met.

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I second the amendment, which makes eminent sense.

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I have no problems with the amendments as drafted. I am glad, however, that the registration board or the council may ignore the Competition Authority if they see fit because some of the more daft utterances from the Competition Authority from time to time would make one very nervous. It believes competition would give us a better health service and appears to be oblivious to the fact that...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: While I broadly welcome the amendment, I quibble with the wording "published by electronic means or otherwise". The Internet is an additional method of publication rather than a substitute. A board should be required to maintain and publish a printed register also. My amendment seeks to include the wording "on the Internet and otherwise". The Internet is not a substitute for books, newspapers...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Criminals, bankrupts and politicians are excluded.

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I support Senator Browne's comments. There are many bodies from which I am legally excluded, some of which have to do with education and for some of which I am qualified to be a member, due to my membership of the Oireachtas. It seems to be fine to appoint the public relations adviser of the Minister for Transport to the Higher Education Authority but not to appoint a Member of the Oireachtas...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 31: In page 38, lines 40 and 41, to delete all words from "a video" in line 40, down to and including "transmission" in line 41 and substitute "or any other mode of transmission, provided that where cross-examination is sought by a party to the inquiry, the mode of transmission must permit of such cross-examination". We could argue all day about the precise wording but...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Given the number of legislative measures the Supreme Court has thrown out after the advice of the Attorney General that they were constitutional, I would not get too carried away with that if I were the Minister. It is an extraordinarily roundabout way of doing something very simple. An affidavit is something which the courts have defined in a very precise way so as to ensure that what is in...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I second the amendment. It makes perfectly reasonable sense. The wording "at any time during the period of 5 years ending on the relevant date," is incredibly loose. I could write the Minister of State's response. It will be to the effect that the Government has no desire to make the Bill excessively prescriptive, etc. The truth is that there ought to be some evidence that people are...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I thank the Minister of State and the officials. It is a pity that, in a variation of a trend that has developed here, many matters were not accepted on the basis of arguments which were not persuasive. I firmly and vigorously support what Senator Henry said about the Bologna process. It is, perhaps, the central guiding principle for future recognition of third level qualifications. If we...

Seanad: International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town Convention) Bill 2005: Second Stage. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I am tempted to speak about Cork Airport at the beginning of my contribution, rather than at the end, so that I can stay in tune with Senator Dooley. I will not resist the temptation to say some things about policy, however. This Parliament has a peculiar role in assessing this legislation because 43 of the Bill's 53 pages consist of an international convention that Members do not have the...

Seanad: Road Safety: Motion. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I am perplexed by the decision to call two Government speakers in a row. I am not familiar with that precedent.