Results 14,961-14,980 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: It is the formulation and testing of experimental curricula. I am advised it is the education departments of universities that will be encompassed by that provision.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: The pharmacy schools.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: That is the idea.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: I have.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: Regarding the nine members, if that needs to be clarified, we must clarify it. It is the intention that they will be elected. In the event of only nine people putting themselves forward, obviously there would not be an election but I envisage more than nine will come forward. There is a good deal of interest in being involved with the society. Regarding the issue of appointment by the...
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: Serving Members of the Oireachtas may not be members of the council of the society. I have strong opinions on this issue because I regard it as a conflict for a Member of the Oireachtas to be a member of a society. The first duty of a member of a society is to that society, whether that is the Medical Council or any other regulatory body and therefore the Schedule of the Act precludes...
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: It was an oversight on my part which I knew the Senator would notice.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: To clarify the position for the Senator, it is the case with both this Bill and the Medical Practitioners Bill that a person does not need to be a member of the council to be on a committee. Members may be recruited.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: The burden on members of a council such as this and the Medical Council, of which Senator Feeney has experience, is such that it is almost impossible to find either professional or lay people to participate. It was stated to me recently that no private sector employer would grant an employee time off to participate in some of these regulatory bodies because a fitness to practise hearing can...
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: On this council?
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: They could be appointed by one of the nominees but they are not specified in the legislation.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: I may have misunderstood the Senator. I thought the Senator was suggesting that the Bill should specify a medical practitioner.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: Does the Senator mean appointed to the Medical Council?
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: They can be recruited onto the committees by the society.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: I will reflect on the Senator's amendment No. 18 and introduce a Government amendment to specify all those points.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: We have been informed by the Senator's very good amendment and we just need to clear it legally.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: There is a member in the other House and he is a Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: He or she would be required to vacate the position.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: We will probably come back with an amendment on that issue.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: They have great representation here.