Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 1 May 2012
676 Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin asked the Minister for Health the health legislation introduced, on a month by month basis, for the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; the effect of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22005/12]
View answerThe table below shows information in relation to primary legislation under the aegis of my Department enacted from 2009 to date, including the month in which the legislation was enacted.
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Month and Year Enacted |
Title of Act |
Purpose |
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April 2012 |
Criminal Justice (Female Genital Mutilation) Act 2012 |
To provide for the creation of an offence of female genital mutilation, and other offences relating to female genital mutilation, for the better protection of girls and women; to provide for amendments to other enactments; and to provide for related matters. |
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March 2012 |
Clotting Factor Concentrates and Other Biological Products Act 2012 |
To provide for the procurement and making available of clotting factor concentrates and other biological medicinal products, including recombinant protein preparations, for the purpose of treating coagulation and other disorders and to provide for related matters. |
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February 2012 |
Health (Provision of General Practitioner Services) Act 2012 |
To enable a wider range of registered Medical Practitioners to provide medical services to eligible persons under the General Medical Services Scheme, to provide for modifications to the operation of that scheme, and to provide for related matters. |
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December 2011 |
Nurses and Midwives Act 2011 |
To enhance the protection of the public in its dealings with Nurses and Midwives and, for that purpose, to provide for a Board to be known as Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann, or in the English language, the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, to recognise midwifery as a separate profession, to provide for the registration, regulation and control of nurses and midwives, to enhance the high standards of professional education, training and competence of nurses and midwives, to investigate complaints against nurses and midwives and to increase the public accountability of the Board, to dissolve the National Council for the Professional Development of Nursing and Midwifery, to repeal the Nurses Act 1985 and to provide for related matters. |
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December 2011 |
Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011 |
To amend the Health Insurance Act 1994, the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 and the Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999, in particular to ensure that, in the interests of societal and intergenerational solidarity, the burden of the costs of health services be shared by insured persons by continuing to provide for a cost subsidy between the young and the old; to continue to provide, having regard to the principal objective of the Minister for Health and the Health Insurance Authority in performing their respective functions under the Health Insurance Act 1994, for tax credits to enable the old to have access to health insurance cover and to continue to provide for a means whereby any overcompensation arising from such tax credits may be repaid; and to provide for related matters. |
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July 2011 |
Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Act 2011 |
To amend the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002 to allow for the development of regulations for the introduction of combined text and pictorial health warnings on tobacco products (as set down in Commission Decision No. 2003/641/EC of 5 September 2003). |
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July 2011 |
Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Act 2011 |
To amend the Medical Practitioners Act 2007 to provide for the establishment of a new division of the Register of Medical Practitioners, the Supervised Division for the registration of medical practitioners to work in specific posts in the public health sector for a limited period of time. |
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December 2010 |
Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Act, 2010 |
To provide for the dissolution of the Office of Tobacco Control; to repeal Part 2 of the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002; and to provide for related matters. |
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July 2010 |
Adoption Act 2010* |
To provide for the dissolution of An Bord Uchtála and the establishment of a body to be known as Údarás Uchtála na hÉireann and in the English language as the Adoption Authority of Ireland; to provide for matters relating to the adoption of children; to give the force of law to the Convention on the Protection of Children and co-operation in respect of Intercountry adoption signed at The Hague on 29 May 1993; to provide for the making and recognition of Intercountry adoptions in accordance with Bilateral Agreements and with other arrangements; to provide for the recognition of certain adoptions effected outside the State; to repeal the Adoption Acts 1952 to 1998; to make consequential amendments to otherActs and to provide for related matters. |
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July 2010 |
Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 2010 |
To amend the Health Act 1970 to provide for the charging of fees in respect of prescribed items dispensed by community pharmacy contractors to persons with full eligibility and to provide for matters connected therewith. |
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July 2010 |
Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2010 |
To provide for the dissolution of the Saint Luke’s Hospital Board; to amend the Health (Nursing Homes) Act 1990, the Health Act 2007, the Medical Practitioners Act 2007 and the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009; to repeal section 44 of the Health Act 1947 and section 36(2) of the Health Act 1953; and to provide for related matters. |
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July 2010 |
Health (Amendment) Act 2010 |
To amend the Health Act 2004 to provide, in the public interest, for the furnishing by the Health Service Executive of information and documents to the Minister for Health and Children and to provide for matters connected therewith. |
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July 2009 |
Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 |
To dissolve the National Council on Ageing and Older People, the Women’s Health Council, the National Cancer Screening Service Board, the Drug Treatment Centre Board and the Crisis Pregnancy Agency, to provide for the exercise of certain functions relating to superannuation by the Minister for Health and Children, to provide for the amendment of the Health Act 1970, the Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal Act 1997, the Mental Health Act 2001, the Health Act 2007 and the National Cancer Registry Board (Establishment) Order 1991 and to provide for related matters. |
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July 2009 |
Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 |
To amend the Health Insurance Act 1994, the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, the Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999 and the Insurance Act 1936, in particular to ensure that, in the interests of societal and intergenerational solidarity, the burden of the costs of health services be shared by insured persons by providing for a cost subsidy between the young and the old; to provide, having regard to the principal objective of the Minister for Health and Children and the Health Insurance Authority in performing their respective functions under the Health Insurance Act 1994, for tax credits to enable the old to have access to health insurance cover and to provide for a means whereby any overcompensation arising from such tax credits may be repaid; and to provide for related matters. |
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July 2009 |
Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Act 2009 |
To amend the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002 to (a) allow for judicial discretion in imposing the periods of time a person convicted of an offence under the Act is suspended from the retail register (b) allows specialist tobacconists to advertise and (c) provides exemptions from the advertising ban for Airport Duty Free. |
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July 2009 |
Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009 |
To provide for the establishment of a scheme to be known as the Nursing Homes Support Scheme under which financial support may be made available to persons in respect of long-term residential care services out of resources allocated to the Health Service Executive for the purposes of the scheme, to provide for the amendment of the Health Act 1970, to provide for the amendment of the Health (Nursing Homes) Act 1990, to provide for the amendment of the Courts and Court Officers Act 1995, to provide for the amendment of the National Treatment Purchase Fund Board (Establishment) Order 2004 and to provide for related matters. |
Note: The Adoption Act 2010* is now under the aegis of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs.
