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Select Committee on Health debate -
Tuesday, 11 Jul 2017

Business of Select Committee

This meeting will be carried live on Saorview channel 22, Virgin Media channel 207, Sky channel 574, eir Vision channel 504 and Vodafone channels - Oireachtas TV 201, Dáil 207 and Seanad 208. Members are requested to switch off their phones or switch them to airplane mode so as not to interfere with the recording of the meeting. All public meetings are broadcast in a replay loop over the following week. Any sound interference which may affect the broadcast will cause problems. Let me remind members who have come in late to switch off their phones. Deputy John Brassil is substituting for Deputy Billy Kelleher.

The purpose of the Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2017 is to amend the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 in order to address gaps in respect of appointing professional members to the Health and Social Care Professionals Council, CORU. The Bill seeks to permit a registration board under the aegis of CORU to apply training and education conditions to applicants for registration who have qualified but who have not yet commenced the practise of their profession. The Bill also seeks to allow for the registration of physiotherapists, and physical therapists in the register of physiotherapists.

I welcome the Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, and his officials to the meeting.

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