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Seanad: Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Henry: I am pleased this register is being instituted in the council. We did not have a register like this before and it is very important. People without adequate training could describe themselves as specialists in certain areas and this will ensure that cannot happen. One has to have proper qualifications in a particular area before one can say one is a specialist.

Seanad: Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Henry: While I agree with section 49, a real problem will emerge regarding internships due to the increased number of medical graduates. We have a responsibility to those doctors trained in Ireland to ensure there are enough internships to fulfil their qualifications necessary before they can be registered with the council. We cannot, as used to happen in the good old days as they were described,...

Seanad: Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Henry: This important section allows for visiting practitioners to provide services on a temporary and occasional basis. There is no provision in the section, however, that a person providing specialist treatment, particularly cosmetic surgery, must have specialist qualifications. This concern is further heightened by the recent establishment of several cosmetic surgery clinics.

Seanad: Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Henry: My concern is the specialist training that these people may or may not have had.

Seanad: Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Henry: It is important that this is made plain to the general public. I welcome the fact that people on a specialist register must have specialist qualifications. There are medical people entering the country every several weeks to undertake complicated medical procedures. One must query their qualifications. That they do not have to have specialist qualifications must be made well-known to the...

Seanad: Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Henry: I hope the Medical Council will make it plain that people cannot just call themselves specialists.

Seanad: Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Henry: I praise the Minister for having said the complainant should be given information because not giving information to the complainant was a serious problem in the past.

Seanad: Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Henry: I raised this matter previously so I will not labour the point. It concerns the hearings and stress in respect of whether they will be heard in public. I cannot understand why a person, such as a court reporter, who attends and reports on family law cases in an anonymous fashion could not report such hearings. Whatever criticism some journalists may have had of the work, I believe it...

Seanad: Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Henry: I am glad the Minister has included a provision that evidence may be given by video link. It can frequently be difficult to get witnesses who worked in a hospital at one stage but are now based in Toronto, Tierra del Fuego or elsewhere to appear before a committee. Therefore, I am glad this provision has been included. Section 66(9)(a) provides that the records shall not be made available...

Seanad: Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Henry: This provision could be hard on the practitioner if he or she thought the production of a patient's records were essential.

Seanad: Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Henry: I know that, but this is regarding a patient's records being made available, a patient not allowing his or her medical records to be made available, yet the practitioner may consider they are essential to his or her defence.

Seanad: Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Henry: I do not know how the practitioner can force these to be——

Seanad: Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Henry: Yes.

Seanad: Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Henry: The subsection provides that the committee can direct the practitioner to act, but that could put the practitioner in an awkward position.

Seanad: Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Henry: My concern is if the patient will not give such consent.

Seanad: Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Henry: I am not totally happy about this provision but there is not much I can do about it.

Seanad: Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Henry: Sometimes they make a complaint and then realise, as has happened and as I have seen in court cases, information will be revealed from past medical records, they having thought only information concerning the subject of the current complaint would be produced. However, they suddenly realise that medical records will be produced and they do not like that.

Seanad: Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Henry: I like to praise the Minister when I can because people are giving out about her. It is good complainants will be told what will happen because they were not told in the past and it was a problem.

Seanad: Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Henry: Previously I raised the fact section 71(a) may not be appealed, either on the facts or the censure. This is where a person can be given advice, an admonishment or a censure in writing. I gather this is because of the legal advice the Minister has been given in view of the case before the courts at present. People will feel very aggrieved if they cannot appeal an admonishment if they...

Seanad: Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Mary Henry: I always give praise when I possibly can. It is very good the council is looking at the situation of people in other jurisdictions. This has caused problems, even in the immediate past. It is most important relevant information is exchanged between jurisdictions.