Restricted Article The Minister for Health may restrict the sale or importation of instruments, appliances or apparatus where their use by the public involves a risk of serious injury or injury to health part or of a substance which, when accessible to the general public, involves a risk of injury to health. The Department may grant a registered medical practitioner a permit to import, manufacture, […]
Older Food Hygiene Rules The health legislation provided for the regulation of food and drink. This legislation has been obliged and supplemented by substantial amounts of food safety legislation within the last 20 years. Recent European Union Legislation has supervened and/or supplemented this legislation. The Minister for Health may make regulations regarding the prevention of danger to public health relating to the manufacture, preparation, importation, […]
Overview The Minister may specify the infectious diseases by regulations. A person who knows he is a probable source of infection with an infectious disease must take steps provided for by the legislation and take reasonable precautions to prevent infecting others from such disease by his present conduct or by means of any article with which he has been t in contact. Every person has […]
Background The Central Council for the Rehabilitation of Tuberculosis REHAB was founded in 1949. In the age of pool competitions in the 1950s, REHAB established a number of facilities in Dublin, Cork and Limerick. By the late 1950s, there were fewer TB patients, and it commenced accepting psychiatric patients. It concentrated on re-training. The State largely relied on religious institutions to provide for persons with […]
EU Covid Cert The Health (Amendment) (No.2) Act 2021 enables operators of ‘relevant indoor premises’ to permit access to their premises to ‘permitted persons’ who can demonstrate that they are fully vaccinated from Covid-19 disease, or who can demonstrate that they have immunity due to having recovered from Covid-19 infection. In certain circumstances, children and certain staff are exempted from satisfying the above-described requirements and […]
Quarantine Powers The purpose of the Health (Amendment) Act 2021 is to provide for the mandatory quarantine of persons coming into the State from certain areas from where there is known to be sustained human transmission of Covid-19 or any variant of concern or from which there is a high risk of importation of infection or contamination with Covid-19 or any variant of concern by […]
Closure Orders The primary purpose of the Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Act 2020 is, having regard to the threat to human life and public health posed by Covid-19, to provide additional enforcement powers to An Garda Síochána to address breaches of the relevant Covid-19 regulations by any business or service selling or supplying intoxicating liquor for consumption on the premises. The Act applied to any […]
Overview The Department of Public Health is part HSE. It is divided into eight divisions covering Ireland. It provides health protection services, advocates, contributes to health and participates in health service development. Each section of the department is led by the Director of Public Health, who is the regional Medical Officer of Health. The Medical Officer of Health is responsible for investigating notifiable diseases and […]
EHS & EHOs The HSE Environmental Health Service regulates a wide range of areas of public health concern. The purpose is largely preventative by controlling and removing environmental risks and factors that may cause ill health or reduce quality of life. The Environmental Health Officers are a central part of the service. Environmental Health Officers administer and enforce a wide large of legislation, including that in […]