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Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: In more ways than one.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: I was supporting you for the leadership but I am taking it back now Bernard.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: I will make a few points on this section. I welcome what this section does. It is important to reiterate what the Bill does and does not do. It does give clarity as to the professions that may administer medical products but it states very clearly that it does not confer new powers or scope of practice on any profession. It is important to make that point. I support what the Bill...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: I will make a point of clarification. I welcome that important move. I assume the Minister would have to set out specifically what medicines a pharmacist potentially could dispense?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: It is a pre-emptive move.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: That is fine.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: The modalities of the extension of prescribing are being worked out.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: It will be a legislative enabler.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: That is okay.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: I will support the amendment but I just want to make a point about the substance of the section, which relates to having medicine shortage protocols in place. I have been looking for this for some time and have engaged with the Minister of State on it. If I am correct, the provisions relate to medicinal product shortages by facilitating the implementation of a framework for medicine...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: I would like clarification on what a settled pragmatic decision or position of the Government might be.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: Is there provision for an opt-out, or perhaps not an opt-out but that a member state could have a derogation to make a decision, as opposed to this being a one-size-fits-all approach across the European Union? If the proposal is to reduce data exclusivity from eight years to six years, albeit with the caveat that Mr. O'Connor has given on the buyback, whatever about where it eventually...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: This is the concern that is being shared by the industry. It states the US will be watching this with regard to anything that makes it more difficult for a company to protect its intellectual property, particularly when there is large investment in high-tech drugs, and we all know how important that is for patients and the industry. I get that there is a balance to be struck. I get all of...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: Would it be possible to get a note on this, given that it will be an important issue and the Parliament will have to make decisions on it? Perhaps a note can be given to members of the committee to inform us as best the Department can on the process so far, what has been proposed and the position of the Government or the Department. Mr. O'Connor said a number of Departments are meeting.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: I will come back to the Minister of State. A threshold of €184 week is a very low income threshold bar, which is the point I am making, given it has not been reviewed since 2009. Notwithstanding the over 70s, we are talking about the general population.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: I am simply making the point. It is not attacking the Government. I am saying that the political system and all of us have to look at that as the next step to reducing the cost of healthcare.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: I assume the proposal came from the Commission, went through a committee and will end up on the floor of the Parliament. Is that the process?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: If the Parliament rolls back on the buybacks, and it is even worse than we could imagine, there is nothing we could do.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: 116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide the latest update on the Government’s response to the business plan received from Waterford Airport for the development and re-establishment of commercial passenger flight business into Waterford and the south east; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13120/24]

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: I thank all the speakers who supported the motion. I also acknowledge that the Government is not opposing the motion but I ask the Minister of State present and the Cabinet to go much further and deliver on the recommendations. As my colleague an Teachta Conway-Walsh said, in reality, given the news today, we need a general election and we need to give the people the opportunity to vote for...