Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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741. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the points raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46482/17]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The Health and Social Care Professions (Amendment) Bill 2017 passed Committee stage in Dáil Éireann on 11 July without amendment.

In the course of the Committee Stage debate I indicated that my Department would, in advance of Report Stage, engage further with the two professional bodies involved, the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists and the Irish Association of Physical Therapists, on the areas of concern to them. These relate to the designated professions’ codes of professional conduct and ethics and the proposed assessment of professional competence to be set for existing users of the title of physical therapistwho do not hold the specified professional qualifications. These concerns had prompted a number of proposed amendments to the Bill at Committee Stage. While unable to accept these amendments I undertook to look at the possibility of addressing the concerns of both professional bodies in Ministerial amendments that could be tabled at the Bill’s Report Stage.

My Department's officials have since met with and corresponded with representatives of the two professional bodies on the matter and I intend to table amendments to the Bill at Report Stage.