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Registration of Medical Practitioners. (11 May 2005)

Jerry Cowley: On 26 May 2004 the former Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Micheál Martin stated that: "While the proposed amendments to the Medical Practitioners Act will relate to conventional medical practitioners, it must be acknowledged that the public will continue to use the services of alternative and complementary practitioners and alternative and complementary remedies." That suggests the...

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (11 May 2005)

Jerry Cowley: I remind the Deputy and the Minister that this is not Committee Stage and that the Deputy has the floor. The Minister will have the chance to respond.

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (11 May 2005)

Jerry Cowley: It is now 1.30 p.m. Will the Minister move the adjournment of the debate?

Proposed Legislation. (11 May 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 58: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the case of a person (details supplied); her further views on whether it is acceptable that she has no plans to introduce legislation to regulate alternative practitioners and to deal with the situation of this person in a comprehensive way in order to protect the public, requiring such alternative...

Proposed Legislation. (11 May 2005)

Jerry Cowley: I welcome the information provided by the Minister for Health and Children. Some people are practising acupuncture, reflexology and homoeopathy, which are popular, but the laws that govern doctors and medicines do not extend to these people. Persons can set themselves up as a homoeopath, natural healer, reflexologist or anything else and are not answerable to outside bodies unless they...

Proposed Legislation. (11 May 2005)

Jerry Cowley: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle——

Proposed Legislation. (11 May 2005)

Jerry Cowley: The Medical Practitioners Act does not apply to this lady. From what I have read, the new legislation will apply only to medical practitioners who purport to be this or that. However, this lady claims to be a healer and, from my reading of the legislation, it will not apply to her. Will the Tánaiste review the legislation because what is promoted by such people is into the blue yonder, so to...

Proposed Legislation. (11 May 2005)

Jerry Cowley: That legislation will not cover alternative practitioners.

Proposed Legislation. (11 May 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Paschal Carmody can still practise as an alternative practitioner. He has been struck off the register as I or any other doctor would be because we are subject to the law, but this woman to whom I referred is not subject to it, although she should be.

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (11 May 2005)

Jerry Cowley: I remind Members that this is not Committee Stage.

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (11 May 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Amendments Nos. 9 to 14, inclusive, are out of order.

Telecommunications Services. (5 May 2005)

Jerry Cowley: I propose to allow one minute for each supplementary question and one minute for each reply.

Telecommunications Services. (5 May 2005)

Jerry Cowley: I call Deputy Broughan. I do not make the rules.

Telecommunications Services. (5 May 2005)

Jerry Cowley: I do not make the rules of the House but they must be enforced.

Telecommunications Services. (5 May 2005)

Jerry Cowley: The Deputy will have an opportunity to ask further questions after Deputy Broughan.

Telecommunications Services. (5 May 2005)

Jerry Cowley: The Deputy will have another opportunity to ask questions.

British-Irish Agreement (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage. (5 May 2005)

Jerry Cowley: I am delighted to speak on this Bill. I cannot stand over this legislation, as it is legislation on the hoof. There is a sense of expediency about the Bill, which upsets me. There is a need to provide legislation to control what is going on with alternative practitioners as some of them are preventing people from having legitimate treatment, which is costing those people their lives. Yet we...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (4 May 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 157: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department is in a position to provide funding for a hydrotherapy pool; if the grant provisions within her Department which entitle applicants for furnishings of a health facility are applicable in this case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14040/05]

Written Answers — Opticians Regulations: Opticians Regulations (4 May 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 171: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department will permit a person to sell and distribute glasses and prescription lenses through the Internet with the prescription end of this being handled in the United Kingdom; if this is not already permitted, if she will consider allowing the establishment of such a service to enable the public to avail of...

Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (4 May 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 195: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress she is making to ensure that the funding of €400,000 in 2005 earmarked by her Department for sheltered housing for the elderly by voluntary housing bodies towards on-site care costs is being administered; the actions she will put in place to expedite this process in order that this money is allocated; and...