Results 81-100 of 1,886 for speaker:Fergal Browne
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Fergal Browne: On the point I raised, the Minister is agreeing with me but yet failing to put it in stone.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Fergal Browne: Why not?
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Fergal Browne: But that proves the point.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Fergal Browne: In the previous general election and Seanad electionââ
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Fergal Browne: With respect to the Minister, following the previous general election, and no doubt the same will be the case following the next general election, there was a turnover of over one third of the Houses of the Oireachtas between Members retiring, Members who, unfortunately, will not get re-elected and new Members being elected. I speak not of a review every few years but that we agree to even...
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Fergal Browne: A review of the Bill and, I suppose, the code of conduct is linked into it.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Fergal Browne: The point I make is that the Minister has admitted that it has taken many years for this Bill to come about in the first place, and no doubt her intentions are honourable in so far as she would, if she were re-elected and reappointed Minister for Health and Children, do as she stated. The danger is that she might not be reappointed as Minister and there could be a new Minister in place. In...
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Fergal Browne: I doubt it. There is an advantage in providing on Report Stage an option of reviewing the entire procedure approximately three years from the date of enactment of the Bill. As it is major legislation, we would do everyone a service.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Fergal Browne: I may have worded incorrectly a question I asked yesterday on existing pharmacists who lack the requisite qualifications. Section 14 requires that a pharmacist hold a qualification appropriate for his or her practice. I may have inadvertently claimed that hospital pharmacists are not qualified, which I certainly did not mean to imply, and I apologise for that mistake. I was trying to point...
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Fergal Browne: The Minister informed us that half the people on blood pressure tablets should not be taking them and that half the people who were not on them, should be. She has spoken at length about the overuse of antibiotics, particularly at a time when she is in trouble over MRSA.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Fergal Browne: The Minister told me she would bring me to the Progressive Democrats party conference in Wexford too but she did not. I have received all these invitations after the event. The Minister has talked a lot about the overuse of antibiotics, rightly so. I agree with her on the rise in the incidence of MRSA. However, I do not see any action being taken by her to combat it.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Fergal Browne: It is because the section refers to the disposal of medicinal products and the manner in which such products must be sold or supplied. Is there scope in the section to include guidelines on the appropriate use of antibiotics which the Minister has said on numerous occasions are overprescribed and overused and a factor in the rise in the incidence of MRSA?
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Fergal Browne: I did not receive a proper reply to my question. In the case of a pharmacy being aware of a doctor's over-prescription of antibiotics, is the onus on the pharmacists to inform on the doctor? Am I correct to assume there is no link between pharmacists and the Medical Council, which regulates doctors? Whenever the issue of MRSA is raised in this House, the abuse of antibiotics is discussed....
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Fergal Browne: To whom?
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Fergal Browne: This is a significant point. Patients find it quite intimidating to query a decision by a doctor. In general they are glad to receive advice from doctors and tend to assume that the latter are acting in their best interests. I refer to patients with the courage to question such matters and bring them to the attention of a pharmacist who then brings them to the attention of the...
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Fergal Browne: Provided the Bill goes through the Seanad today and will be before the Dáil tomorrow, when will it take effect? I presume it will go through Committee Stage in the Dáil next week.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Fergal Browne: Immediately. There will be no time delay.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Fergal Browne: I wish to ask about the need to review the matter because it may not work out as we envisage. What will happen if a doctor and pharmacist are husband and wife? How will the Bill affect this?
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Fergal Browne: It is allowed for.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Fergal Browne: I am conscious that it can be difficult to trace companies. People may own property in the name of a company. Therefore, it could be difficult to trace who owns such a building.