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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: Is it possible to define specifically what a pregnancy counsellor is?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: Is the Minister suggesting that all counselling should be regulated and this should come under that umbrella rather than specifically pregnancy counselling?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: I thank the Minister.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: Excuse me. Deputy Howlin. The committee will be preparing a report on this issue. Is Deputy Howlin withdrawing the Bill or-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: On behalf of the committee, I would like to thank Deputy Brendan Howlin, Mr. Neil Ward and Mr. Finbar O'Malley for coming to give evidence to the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: We will now resume in public session. We will now meet officials from the Department of Health on the committee's detailed scrutiny of the Private Members' Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016, sponsored by Deputy Brendan Howlin. On behalf of the committee I welcome Ms Teresa Cody, Ms Deirdre Walsh, Ms Geraldine Luddy and Mr. Kieran Duffy to the meeting, where we will...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: I thank Ms Cody for her opening statement and will now take questions from members.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: I thank Ms Walsh.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: With regard to giving counselling advice from a general practice point of view, we are advised to give non-directive counselling. We are supposed not to direct a patient in one direction or another. That must be done ethically and honestly. It is very difficult to regulate the activity of a profession, even a medical or nursing profession. It must be exceedingly more difficult to regulate...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: Of the 14 professions that are already regulated, does each one of those have a regulatory body?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: For instance, doctors have the Medical Council.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: So each profession has an equivalent body.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: Such a body would then have to be set up for counselling.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: I presume that setting up a regulatory body would be a very timely process to engage in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: When the Minister was before the committee this morning, he seemed to be willing to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: Sorry. The former Minister, Deputy Howlin. I called him "Minister" this morning as well. He was willing to concede that pregnancy counselling will most likely be brought in under the broader title.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: Okay. Are there any other comments to be made?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: Do we propose to hear from any additional stakeholders on these submissions? If not, the secretariat will draft a report of the proceedings today and we will seek legal analysis of the Bill from the Office of the Parliamentary Legal Adviser. We will then lay it before the Dáil. As there is no other business, we will adjourn until 5 April, when we will consider the Cannabis for...
- National Children's Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: The Rural Independent Group has formulated this important motion on the proposed national children's hospital and is happy to bring it to the floor of the House for debate for several reasons. This will be the most expensive infrastructure project in health and in the history of the State as well as being possibly the most expensive children's hospital in the world. It is essential and...
- Select Committee on Health: Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: This meeting has been convened to consider the Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017, the purpose of which is to provide for the establishment, licensing, operation and regulation of supervised injecting facilities for the purposes of reducing harm to people who inject drugs; enhancing the dignity, health and well-being of people who inject drugs in public places;...