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

Jim Daly: I think the bar has risen since then. I would imagine that it is now higher, if they are applying today. We are just opening the window to allow them to apply because they missed the previous window-----

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

Jim Daly: It will certainly not be lower.

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

Jim Daly: There is no suggestion that we are legislating for 30 or 40 individuals but this change will have an impact on 30 to 40 people who are in place and doing the job. A larger cohort of consultants who may be acting up are not on the specialist register but this does not facilitate them in moving up. This is designed around the 30 or 40 people who have the necessary experience, training and...

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

Jim Daly: I must reiterate, categorically, that we are not changing the standards in any way, shape or form. We are not changing the standard that is required in to be admitted onto the specialist register. All we are doing is making provision for a cohort of people who have achieved that standard but who, for a bureaucratic reason rather than a standard, training or experience deficit, were unable...

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

Jim Daly: I will get that circulated so that Members can have a better understanding of it between now and Report Stage. I do not want anybody to have a concern around this and I certainly want to assure anyone following this debate that there is absolutely no change to the standards required of healthcare professionals under this legislation.

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

Jim Daly: I am happy to do that.

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

Jim Daly: The answer to the first question on the specialist register is "Yes". Regarding the second question on the appointment of consultants, I do not know whether that practice will be changed by this provision. I am not certain about that. I know that there was a judgment in the courts recently related to that. I will get that clarified for the Chairman as part of the aforementioned...

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

Jim Daly: I move amendment 40: In page 86, to delete line 34 and substitute the following: “qualification. (2) The Council may, until the 1st anniversary of the commencement of section 86 of the Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Act 2019, register in the Specialist Division a medical practitioner who, being able to be registered in the General Division,...

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

Jim Daly: I assure the Deputies that I am happy to oblige.

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

Jim Daly: I move amendment No. 41: In page 94, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “Application of Parts 7, 8 and 9 to interns and adapters 95. The Act of 2007 is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 56A: “56B. In this Part and in Parts 8 and 9, and notwithstanding the definition of ‘registered medical practitioner’ in...

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

Jim Daly: One of the basic principles underpinning the justice system is that justice should not only be done but should be seen to be done. We can debate that principle in this forum or any other, but that is the accepted principle on which this section was based. There are concerns, which the justice system has addressed by making exceptions in childcare cases and so on. No amendment has been...

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

Jim Daly: I move amendment No. 42: In page 106, to delete lines 8 to 18 and substitute the following: “(a) by renumbering the existing section as subsection (1), (b) in subsection (1)— (i) by the substitution of “(if satisfied that, in the case of a measure referred to in paragraph (a)(ii), it is in the public interest to do so)” for “, if satisfied that it is...

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

Jim Daly: I move amendment No. 43: In page 107, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 91 of Act of 2007 120. Section 91 of the Act of 2007 is amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (7): “(7) Where, arising from the performance of its duty under subsection (1), the Council considers that a medical practitioner...

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

Jim Daly: I move amendment No. 44: In page 108, line 24, to delete “the” and substitute “this”.

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

Jim Daly: I move amendment No. 45: In page 111, line 21, after “post” to insert “or electronically”.

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

Jim Daly: I move Amendment No. 46: In page 111, line 37, to delete “condition” and substitute “conditions”.

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

Jim Daly: What does it relate to?

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

Jim Daly: That pertains to amendment No. 49.

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

Jim Daly: I move amendment No. 48: In page 114, to delete lines 24 to 33 and substitute the following: “ “(11A) Paragraph (a) of subsection (11) shall not apply to the Fitness to Practise Committee except in relation to the Committee’s inquiry into a complaint the hearing of which under section 63 has commenced before the date of coming into operation of section 129 of the...

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

Jim Daly: Yes. This amendment addresses the Deputy's concerns. We accepted that the Deputy had a very fair point.