| Proposed Bill | Purpose as per Legislative Programme | Expected Publication Date |
| Medical Practitioners Act 2007 (Amendment) (Medical Indemnity Insurance) Bill |
To make it mandatory for registration purposes for all medical practitioners engaged in clinical practice to have adequate medical indemnity insurance | In the summer session |
| Health (Amendment) Bill | To clarify and update a number of issues that have been identified over time with specific provisions of the Health Act 1970, to provide for measures arising from Budget 2013 in regard to the Nursing Home Support Scheme, to provide for an updated framework for charging all private in-patients in public hospitals to meet budgetary requirements and to provide for the extending of a publicly funded General Practitioner (GP) service without fees | In the summer session |
| Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill | To introduce a number of measures to regulate the use of sunbeds including a prohibition of their use by those under 18 years of age | Late 2013 |
| Health Information Bill | To provide a legislative framework for the better governance of health information and initiatives including data matching, population health resources and identifiers for use in the health service | Early 2014 |
| Medical Practitioners Act 2007 (Amendment) (No 2) Bill | To amend the Medical Practitioners Act 2007 in relation to a number of issues | No indication as to when publication expected |
| Human Tissue Bill | To meet the key recommendation of the Madden Report that no hospital post-mortem may be carried out and no tissue retained without consent. The Bill will also address other matters relating to human tissue including consent arrangements for transplantation and research purposes | No indication as to when publication expected |
| Licensing of Healthcare Facilities Bill | To provide for a mandatory system of licensing for public and private healthcare facilities | No indication as to when publication expected |
Your William Fry contacts: Fiona Barry & Margaret Muldowney
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