Seanad debates
Wednesday, 25 June 2003
Council Regulation on Procedures for amending the Sirene Manual: Referral to Joint Committee. - Health Service Reform: Statements (Resumed).
The Prospectus report deals with the amalgamation of various organisations. Sometimes I think I have sat on every medical organisation in the country but have now found out that there are a few on which I have not sat, such as the Poisons Commission. Some of the amalgamations seem very sensible but there are others about which I wonder. For example, the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council is to be combined with the National Social Work Qualifications Board. I cannot see anything these two have in common, particularly in view of the fact that the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council is actually getting to grips with pre-hospital care, which is improving enormously – paramedics are being trained to a much higher standard. I would have thought the council would have its hands full without taking on a lot of extra work to do with social work qualifications.
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