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Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: I take Senator Ryan's point but Senator Maurice Hayes is right. There is much more team work now in hospitals. As for general practitioners feeling their jobs are being taken, there is hardly a general practitioner in the State who is not ready to collapse. There is no GP in Mulhuddart to treat 10,000 people and there is barely one in Ballyfermot. The people of Mulhuddart will be ecstatic, as...

Seanad: Health Services: Motion. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: I agree with the part of the Government amendment that states there has been substantial investment in the health service. The only issue which bothers many of us involved in the sector is the question of where this money has gone because there are terrible deficiencies in the sector. Senator Browne mentioned that Dr. Declan Keane, the master of Holles Street Hospital, has warned there would...

Seanad: Health Services: Motion. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: Is it open?

Seanad: Health Services: Motion. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: I have been told about places being open previously, but when I checked they were not open. I will check this one.

Seanad: Health Services: Motion. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: That is better because I heard of a radiotherapy unit that was supposed to be open, but on checking I found it was not.

Seanad: Health Services: Motion. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: We should take careful note of two developments. We pay agency fees to recruit nurses abroad and we are not looked on kindly in the developing world for taking their best trained and most intelligent people. We should put a stop to that. There is also another development we need to carefully monitor. The other day a friend of mine, who was on a panel to recruit an orthopaedic surgeon in a...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: Is it possible to separate the amendments dealing with podiatry from those dealing with physiotherapy? This is the basis of Senator Ryan's objection. The amendments relate to two different professions and it would be preferable to take them separately as the arguments are not the same on both. I propose we group amendments Nos. 1, 6 and 28 on podiatry. Amendment No. 24 is composed of two...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: Yes. Can we do that?

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: I move amendment No. 1: In page 9, subsection (1)(a), line 3, to delete "chiropodist" and substitute "podiatrist". "Podiatrist" is better recognised internationally as the nomenclature for a person who deals with diseases of the foot. While "chiropody" has been in common parlance here, it would be better to use the more internationally recognised term. I did not have the good fortune to learn...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: Yes.

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: The grandparenting section is very useful. It would be covered by the second part of amendment No. 24 which states, "In this Act, the titles Podiatrist and Chiropodist are synonymous and both titles use are restricted exclusively to those professionals who are registered as Podiatrists." If all of those people who have been in practice for a long time come forward and are considered to be...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: I do not know with which registration board with which the word "podiatry" would be at odds. Senator O'Toole stated the importance of making sure that international registrations are similar. The degree people are required to have to be registered by a board is a BSc in podiatry. Senator Maurice Hayes explained the circumstances in Queen's University in this regard. Obviously, the profession...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: Like Senator O'Toole, I am amazed to hear that the profession has been in contact with the Department urging it to keep the name "chiropodist". I have received information from them throughout the years because, as president of the Diabetes Federation of Ireland, I have been involved with the profession. The Minister of State will be aware that foot care is important. This business about...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: I am becoming more and more alarmed. The Minister of State stated that 12 boards are being set up. Is he signifying that we might set up a podiatrists' board as well?

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: It is suggested that the wording regarding "podiatrist" could be left until later. I would hate to see the profession divided up into chiropody and podiatry.

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: I agree with the suggestion that we postpone this until Report Stage while the officials telephone people in Northern Ireland and all sorts of exciting things happen.

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: We had decided to take amendment No. 24 on its own. Amendment No. 24 includes physical therapists and physiotherapists, and podiatrists and chiropodists, and I thought we had agreed to omit physiotherapists for the moment.

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: Again, I am afraid I can anticipate the reply I will receive. There are approximately 2,000 physiotherapists and I have been told for years by their international body that the term "physical therapist" is internationally interchangeable with "physiotherapist". The two titles are synonymous and Irish physiotherapists would like those titles to be protected together. Over the past ten or 15...

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: I too congratulate Senator Maurice Hayes on his article on the effect of the proposed motorway on Tara. I support Senator Ryan's call for a debate on the effect of the development of infrastructure on important sites. That debate could tie in with Senator Kitt's concerns about the efforts put into the development of motorways while very little is put into the development of the railway structure.

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (10 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?