John Perry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 135: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the start-up date for competence insurance for all health professionals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35520/06]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Healthcare personnel have a responsibility to ensure that their practice is safe and their skills are up to date. The introduction of statutory schemes for the maintenance of professional competence is being dealt with in the context of the Medical Practitioners Bill, which will provide for a statutory basis for an appropriate scheme or schemes to ensure the maintenance of professional competence of medical practitioners, and in relation to other legislation which is in preparation regarding nurses, dentists and pharmacists.