Geraldine Feeney (Fianna Fail)

I support my colleague, Senator Cummins, who talked about the advertisement for the cure for cancer. What is going on? The way people are allowed get away with it is appalling. If there is a medical practitioner involved in such advertising, he or she can be dealt with by the Medical Council, held accountable and called before a fitness to practice hearing. In some cases people who are not medical doctors are calling themselves doctors but we have no forum here to deal with them unless they are reported to the Garda and it becomes a criminal offence. Currently, however, there is no mechanism in place to deal with people advertising their wares, which is all they are doing because they are not providing a professional service.