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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)
Billy Kelleher: Regarding the next steps, once the counsellors' and psychotherapists' registration board has been established and its members appointed, the board will be asked to advise the Health and Social Care Professionals Council and the Minister. I suppose it is, in this context, advice. Who is ultimately the person or entity that makes final decisions? Ms Walsh said the board will be asked "to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)
Billy Kelleher: He could amend that advice.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)
Billy Kelleher: These regulations are underpinned by the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005. The new board will meet and make recommendations to the Health and Social Care Professionals Council and the Minister on protected title, qualifications, training programmes and so on. Where people do not comply or remain outside of this process and they continue to advertise on, say, a plaque on a wall...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)
Billy Kelleher: What is the position in respect of a person who is not registered?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)
Billy Kelleher: Is that the case?
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (6 Mar 2018)
Billy Kelleher: 163. To ask the Minister for Health the number of bed and wards in all public and voluntary acute hospitals that were closed on 23 February 2018 or the latest date on which data for validated bed closures at hospital and ward level are available, in tabular form. [10682/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Discharges (6 Mar 2018)
Billy Kelleher: 164. To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges in all public and voluntary acute hospitals at the end of January 2017 or the latest date available; and the number of which have been delayed for zero to ten, ten to 30, 30 to 60, 60 to 100, 100 to 200, 200 to 365 and more than 365 days respectively, in tabular form. [10683/18]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)
Billy Kelleher: I welcome the delegates and thank them for their presentations. As the assessment of the general scheme of the assisted human reproduction Bill is ongoing, we want to engage with those who have a professional opinion, but there are also varying views on the issue. In that context, Dr. Wingfield who sat on the commission says she is, by and large, happy with what is proposed in the general...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)
Billy Kelleher: What about the clinical oversight of the surrogate? There are three people in this relationship. Is that not the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)
Billy Kelleher: Do we need another commission at this stage?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)
Billy Kelleher: We cannot afford to act on an issue that is 13 years old?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)
Billy Kelleher: It is the same with politicians.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)
Billy Kelleher: Given the rate at which they move, we would run out of time very quickly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)
Billy Kelleher: The worst effects of the rest of the world.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)
Billy Kelleher: These are questions about opinions. There are other views not represented in the room. For example, there is the issue of multiple births. The worst excesses involve the perception of some poor women from the slums of Calcutta or Manila receiving multiple implantations. That is the reason many people have concerns about fertility treatment and the industry behind it. In some parts of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)
Billy Kelleher: Yes, they have to be resident here, but they could come here under other guises initially. Is Dr. Wingfield satisfied that the issue has been addressed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)
Billy Kelleher: That is fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)
Billy Kelleher: In other words, it is too restrictive.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)
Billy Kelleher: With regard to regulation and ethical and clinical oversight, for example, if a woman cannot conceive naturally because of underlying health reasons but then becomes pregnant it could have a profound impact on her health, how would the witnesses regulate in that instance? Would they simply depend on the ethical obligations on the clinicians? If such a woman becomes pregnant it could have a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)
Billy Kelleher: Would this legislation as drafted allow for that?