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- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
Title, as amended, agreed to.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
Bill reported with amendments, received for final consideration and passed.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Bill will be sent to the Seanad. Congratulations to all involved in that piece of work.
- Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
- Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I welcome the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman. Amendments Nos. 1 to 5, inclusive, 8 and 15 are related and may be discussed together.
- Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
SECTION 1
- Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No.1: In page 3, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: "PART 1 PRELIMINARY AND GENERAL Short title and commencement 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Maternity Protection, Employment Equality and Preservation of Certain Records Act 2024. (2) This Act, other than section 6, shall come into operation on such day or days as the Minister for Children,...
- Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Yes.
- Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
Roderic O'Gorman: The amendments in this group are largely technical in nature. Amendments No. 1 and 15 propose a change to the Short and Long Titles of the Act, respectively, to reflect the proposed addition of sections related to non-disclosure agreements and preservation of records, which were not part of the published Bill. Amendment No. 1 further provides for the commencement of different sections of...
- Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: You will.
- Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
Roderic O'Gorman: I will leave it there then and allow the Deputy to speak about his amendment.
- Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
Seán Sherlock: I will speak to my amendment No. 4. The logic of the amendment is based on correspondence we received from IBEC. I referred to this on Second Stage. I wish to quote from correspondence we received on 17 October with regard to the potential for discrimination to arise specifically where: For example, 'necessary medical intervention' is only defined with respect to mental health conditions...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: It is important for us to tease this out, and I think I am getting there in terms of what the Minister is proposing. I do not want to take away from the positivity of this measure, because it is extremely important. Women will ask us, however, what the likely prescription charge is going to be. For medical card holders, for example, it was free prescriptions, with everything covered, and...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy. In a world where we were not concerned about getting this measure in place quickly and one of infinite resources, sure, but neither of those things are the case. We want to get this provision in quickly and, obviously, we have finite resources.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: I acknowledge that.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I am very much loath to give a figure because there may be pharmacists who would perhaps have agreed to go below that figure and who would then say that because I have said X, that is where they will go to. Just as it is now for private patients, it is a matter for pharmacists themselves to decide. I fully understand the Deputy's questions because I asked exactly the same ones as we were...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: I accept that.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As I said, the two overarching priorities for me were to get this in place quickly, and this is why we are shoehorning this into this Bill-----
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: I accept that.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: -----and I wanted it to be available to everybody.