Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2024-04-16
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Simon Harris (FG), Wicklow

I also went further. Elections sometimes interrupt people's tenure of service but in 2019 I also brought about regulations to designate the professions of counsellor and psychotherapist under the Health and Social Care Professionals Act. I established the Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board. I appointed its members in February 2019 and they held their first meeting in May 2019. Everybody knows the pressure the Department of Health has been under with the Covid pandemic and the like since. A lot has happened.

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Sitting date: 2024-04-16