Marcella Corcoran Kennedy (Offaly, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Yes, amendments Nos. 1 and 2. Section 45(1A)(b) requires a medical practitioner who is not engaged in medical practice and who therefore does not fall into a class of medical practitioners who must have medical indemnity, to provide evidence that he or she is not engaged in practice, again in accordance with rules which may be set out by the Medical Council.

Section 45(1B) had introduced a new section 45(8) after section 45(7) of the Act, to specify that the Medical Council cannot register a medical practitioner who falls within a class of medical practitioner which requires indemnity, unless the medical practitioner has provided evidence of his or her minimum level of indemnity cover, as may be set out in rules under the proposed section 11(2)(va) of the Act. However, two minor amendments to that text are required for the following reason. Section 45 of the Act was amended by the European Union (Recognition of Professional Qualification) Regulations 2017. These regulations, transposed through SI 8 of 2017, were signed into law on 17 January this year by the Minister for Education and Skills. The regulations transposed Directive 2013/55/EU of the European Union and Parliament on the recognition of professional qualifications. In Regulation 95(1)(e), sections 45(4), 45(5) and 45(6) of the Medical Practitioners Act 2007 were deleted. An amendment is therefore required to the text of the current Bill to state that section 45(7) has now become section 45(3). This is amendment No. 1, which was introduced on Committee Stage in the Dáil by the Minister. Following on from that, the next subsection will become 45(4) rather than section 45(8). This is amendment No. 2, which was proposed by the Minister.

Would the Cathaoirleach like me to proceed to amendment No. 3?