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Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I fully appreciate that and agree that it is fair. It balances things out. However, I am concerned about people who were not in that scenario back then but are now by virtue of experience. Given the nature of healthcare delivery and the recruitment crisis in the health service, people who would not be eligible to be on the specialist register are now acting as consultants. Would they not...

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I was going to ask for that.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Could the explanatory note outline how the small group is included while the other group to whom I referred - the contracts of indefinite duration group, for want of a better term - is specifically and explicitly excluded? If the note could take that form, it would be very helpful.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: It is agreed, subject to the clarifications we have been promised.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister of State must hurry up.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I oppose this section for the same reasons as previously discussed, which relate to the publication of proceedings.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 47: In page 112, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following: “(iv) by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “poor professional performance”: “ ‘poor professional performance’, in relation to a nurse or midwife, means a serious error or failure by the nurse or midwife to meet the standards of...

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I have a note on section 47.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: It relates to a fitness to practise committee making a finding against a nurse if there is no nurse or midwife on the committee.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: My apologies.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: No.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: My concern is that a nurse will be adjudicating on a case involving a midwife and vice versa. Is the Minister of State saying that will not happen?

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: The section proposes to amend section 72, which requires that sanctions of advice, admonishment or censure are confirmed by a court. Currently that is not the case. In the context of a particular circumstance which has been brought to my attention, there is a facility for registrants to seek that hearings take place other than in public and this can be granted by the fitness to practise...

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: How likely does the Minister think this is likely to happen? I am not a legal person but my understanding is that the vast majority of court decisions are published. The unintended consequences of this would be very serious, albeit for a small number of people.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I ask the Minister of State to put himself in the shoes of that individual while he or she waits for the High Court to sit and make that adjudication. That person, if he or she already has a disability that may have been material to the misconduct, will have that added stress and pressure on top of him or her while that person waits to see if the High Court is going to publish. The facility...

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I have outlined my reasons for opposing this section I do not propose to go over them again. However, I am opposing section 160.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Professionals (24 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 255. To ask the Minister for Health if he will legislate for a Supreme Court judgment (details supplied) in the Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019. [38283/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (24 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 256. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of the national children’s hospital; the estimated costs of the enabling work, construction and fit-out in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38284/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (24 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 257. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of the information and communications technology systems for the new national children’s hospital; the person or body contracted to provide the systems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38285/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Pharmacy Services (24 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 266. To ask the Minister for Health when negotiations will commence on a new community pharmacy contract in view of his commitment given at a conference (details supplied); when the talks will conclude; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38351/19]