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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (8 Oct 2020)
Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Waiting Lists (8 Oct 2020)
Mary Butler: As this is a service, matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Waiting Lists (8 Oct 2020)
Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Waiting Lists (8 Oct 2020)
Mary Butler: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (8 Oct 2020)
Mary Butler: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Waiting Lists (8 Oct 2020)
Mary Butler: As these are operational matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Waiting Lists (8 Oct 2020)
Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: From the Seanad (7 Oct 2020)
Mary Butler: Section 36 of the Medical Practitioners Act addresses areas of overlap between the practice of medicine and other health professions. Under existing legislation, where a person holds a dual qualification in medicine and another health professions, for example, dentistry, this section allows them to lawfully practice those areas of dentistry which overlap with medicine without having to be on...
- Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: From the Seanad (7 Oct 2020)
Mary Butler: I propose to discuss Seanad amendments Nos. 51, 52 and 62 together. Sections 88 and 89 of the Medical Practitioners Act set out the duty of the Medical Council in respect of education and training for medical qualifications. They require the Medical Council to approve programmes of training and the bodies which deliver the training. However, while the Act is explicit that the council...
- Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: From the Seanad (7 Oct 2020)
Mary Butler: The Bill, as passed by this House, amends the Health Act 2004 to give the Minister for Health the power to designate the HSE as the competent authority to compare the equivalence of non-Irish qualifications with the qualifications assessed for certain health professions. These are professions which are not regulated on a statutory basis but which are regulated for the purpose of the EU...
- Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: From the Seanad (7 Oct 2020)
Mary Butler: I propose to take amendments Nos. 7, 19, 27, 50 and 61 together. As with the previous amendments, these relate to the treatment of the minor sanctions of advice, admonish and censure. The Bill initially provided that regulators would in future be required to publish information in all cases where these sanctions were imposed. Colleagues in both Houses expressed concern that this measure...
- Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: From the Seanad (7 Oct 2020)
Mary Butler: I propose to take amendments Nos. 11 to 15, inclusive, together. These amendments are consequent on Dáil amendments on Committee Stage. They relate to section 29 of the Bill, which amends the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 to allow a small cohort of practitioners to apply for registration with the Physiotherapists Registration Board. The Bill as passed by the...
- Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: From the Seanad (7 Oct 2020)
Mary Butler: This amendment relates to pharmaceutical assistants and was proposed and supported by a number of Senators. It will amend the Pharmacy Act 2007 to provide two new functions for the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland. Specifically, the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland will be required to ensure that pharmaceutical assistants undertake continuous professional development and that they comply...
- Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: From the Seanad (7 Oct 2020)
Mary Butler: I propose to take amendments Nos. 31 and 55 together. These amendments are technical in nature and relate to the sections of the Medical Practitioners Act 2007 and the Nurses and Midwives Act 2011 that enable the respective regulators to make rules. The Bill inserts a new subsection (15)(c) into section 20 of the Medical Practitioners Act 2007. This section deals with the membership,...
- Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: From the Seanad (7 Oct 2020)
Mary Butler: I propose to take amendments Nos. 32 to 34, inclusive, and 56 to 58, inclusive, together. The Bill as passed by the House amends the Medical Practitioners Act 2007 and the Nurses and Midwives Act 2011 to provide that where subcommittees of the preliminary proceedings committee, PPC, and the fitness to practise committee, FPC, are established pursuant to rules, these subcommittees can...
- Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: From the Seanad (7 Oct 2020)
Mary Butler: I am pleased to report these final amendments to the House. The Bill contains important patient safety measures and I know from the earlier Dáil and Seanad debates that there is strong support across the House for this legislation and a common desire to support its progression. The Bill makes significant changes to the five health profession regulatory Acts, particularly in the areas...
- Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: From the Seanad (7 Oct 2020)
Mary Butler: I propose to take Seanad amendments Nos. 4 to 6, inclusive, 17 and 18, 24 to 26, inclusive, 46 to 49, inclusive, 59 and 60 together. Regulators can impose a range of sanctions on a practitioner following a fitness to practise inquiry. The most serious of these include cancelling a person's registration, suspending the registration for a period of time or attachment of conditions to a...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (7 Oct 2020)
Mary Butler: Before I start, I wish to congratulate Leas-Chathaoirleach on his appointment. It is a significant honour for him and his family, and is well deserved. Déanaim comhghairdeas leis.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (7 Oct 2020)
Mary Butler: I thank Senator Seery Kearney for her question. She has made her points very well in relation to this issue, which has been raised on many occasions in both Houses. I am responding on behalf of my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Hildegarde Naughton, who is unavailable this morning. The disabled parking scheme operates by segregating a proportion of public parking bays for the use...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (7 Oct 2020)
Mary Butler: I assure the Senator that the Department of Transport is very aware of the complex challenges facing the various groups she mentioned today, whether people with physical disabilities that do not directly affect mobility or people with autism or intellectual disabilities and their parents and carers. I take on board the Senator's point, which she made very well, that the primary medical...