Results 2,481-2,500 of 6,030 for speaker:Brendan Ryan
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Brendan Ryan: I refer to wording. Given the subsection's current wording, if I wished to complain about a pharmacist, such a complaint would have to be made on my behalf.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Brendan Ryan: No. Section 35(3) states: "A complaint may be made on behalf of any person or by the registrar."
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Brendan Ryan: The Minister canââ
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Brendan Ryan: I had this debate with the Minister for Education and Science when discussing the Residential Institutions Redress Board in which a similar phrase was used. The form of drafting would have meant victims could not have appealed to the Ombudsman and would have needed someone to do it for them. This is why I noticed it here.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Brendan Ryan: The eternal argument with the Parliamentary Counsel is once again raised in section 37(1) which states: "The council may devise guidelines about resolving complaints by mediation." Everybody believes resolving complaints by mediation is a most desirable way to do things. In my view it should state "shall" and not "may".
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Brendan Ryan: It should not be discretionary. The word "may" is appropriate in certain areas but "shall" should be used here.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Brendan Ryan: I have some other questions and I do not believe they are trivial. The Acting Chairman has a wonderful way of looking at me to make me feel like I am wasting the House's time.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Brendan Ryan: Section 37(3) states: No attempt may be made to resolve a complaint by mediation without the consent of the complainant and the registered pharmacist or pharmacy owner. Should we insert the phrase "written consent" into this section? The purpose is to ensure everybody operates in the same way.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Brendan Ryan: This is important. Agreeing to mediation is the start of a process and everybody should know what they agree to.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Brendan Ryan: One does not want a later court case where people state they never agreed to it.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Brendan Ryan: They might agree and then change their minds or be advised by a lawyer that they should not have agreed to it.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Brendan Ryan: Many of us received representations from people in the profession and one argument put to me was that this is soft in terms of preference for all hearings to be in public. Section 42 states: (1) A hearing before the professional conduct committee shall be held in public [This is a great start]. (2) But it shall be held in private ifâ (a) the registered pharmacist or pharmacy owner or the...
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Brendan Ryan: The Minister has an amendment tabled so let us move on. I will not move amendment No. 53.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Brendan Ryan: I apologise. I move amendment No. 53: In page 34, subsection (1), line 32, after "the" where it firstly occurs to insert "High".
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Brendan Ryan: I have a comment on section 48(2), just to prove I read all this stuff. It states "The Council may not cancel the registration of a pharmacist or retail pharmacy business on the grounds of a conviction for an offence". I take it that is an offence unrelated to the nature of this Bill.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Brendan Ryan: I am at least happy about the consistency that must apply the same test to cancelling as it would to refusing registration. Should there not be a little legislative guidance regarding the offences under consideration? It is undefined. Are we speaking about a drink-driving conviction or murder or rape? I presume we are speaking about serious offences. This is only a thought but it may be...
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Brendan Ryan: Yes.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Brendan Ryan: We discussed this earlier when I raised the equal status matter. I do not want to go off on that again.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Brendan Ryan: No, there is no reason to go over that again. I believe it was a valid question but the Minister answered it satisfactorily and I am sorry for interrupting her. There is a clear statement here that people convicted of some undefined offences are not fit to practise. The matter could do with a little teasing out. It is only an opinion but the area could end up with enormous arguments....
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Brendan Ryan: Asking the county council to build a fence, for example.