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Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Bill recommitted in respect of amendment No. 1.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, to delete line 5 and substitute the following: “An Act to amend the Health Act 1970, the Irish Medicines Board Act 1995; the Pharmacy Act 2007; the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013 and the Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Act 2023; and to”. The amendment concerns the addition of the Patient...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Amendment agreed to.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Pursuant to Standing Order 187(3), it is reported to the Dáil that the Long Title has been amended.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Bill reported with amendment.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 2: In page 5, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 59 of Act of 1970 6. Section 59 of the Act of 1970 is amended in subsection (1A), by the substitution of “a registered medical practitioner, registered dentist or registered pharmacist” for “a registered medical practitioner or registered...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Amendment agreed to.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Amendments Nos. 3 to 5, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 3: In page 9, to delete lines 11 and 12. This group of three amendments will provide that the Minister for Health may make regulations for prescribing for common and uncomplicated conditions in retail pharmacy businesses, also called community pharmacies. Amendment No. 3 is purely technical in nature. It removes textual amendments to section 32(2)(l) of the Irish...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: From what I understand of these amendments, I welcome what the Minister of State is saying there and the provision for the making of regulations. Given the shortages of healthcare staff, we need to maximise the capacity of all existing staff and services. Community pharmacies have particular benefits for the roll-out of different health initiatives, not least because they are in every...

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: Thanks so much.

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I join the Minister in congratulating Deputy Funchion. I wish her the best of luck. I thank the Minister for the engagement so far. I support Deputy Sherlock's amendment. It is reasonable. Every one of us here is trying to ensure that childminding is done right everywhere. As I said to the Minister last week, people have a fear of Tusla coming into their houses. On top of that, the...

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I take the points made by the Minister. It is the right of every person in this House to put forward amendments and the right of every other person to comment on the quality or otherwise of those amendments. There is a timescale in which to put forward amendments. If people think they can put forward a better amendment than this one, let them do so. While I have the floor, I pay...

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Section 11 agreed to.

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Sections 12 to 23, inclusive, agreed to.

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank the Ceann Comhairle very much. I really appreciate that. It is a fantastic opportunity but I have to say that I will miss working alongside my colleagues in the children's committee and the Minister. Even though we have not always agreed, we have always worked really constructively together. With regard to the Bill, I have come in to support Deputy Sherlock's amendment. I have...

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I agree with a certain amount of the sentiment behind this amendment although I do not entirely agree with the wording. I will repeat a point I made on Second Stage, which is that, while it is sometimes a result of need, people very often consciously choose a childminder because they like the informality and the lower minder-child ratio. It is often viewed as being more homely than a...

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputies for their contributions. I am not able to accept Deputy Sherlock's amendment but I hope that what I am about to say will explain why. The impact of what he is proposing and where he has located the amendment may be wider than he intends. Perhaps I can also provide some words of comfort. As we recall from last week, the purpose of this Bill is twofold. One element is...