Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Act 2025
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PART 2 Supports | ||
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Provision of health services without charge to former residents | ||
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4. (1) The Executive shall make available without charge to persons in respect of whom it is satisfied are former residents— | ||
(a) a general practitioner medical and surgical service, | ||
(b) drugs, medicines and medical and surgical appliances for the time being on the Reimbursement List within the meaning of the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013 , | ||
(c) the nursing service specified in section 60 of the Act of 1970, | ||
(d) the home help service specified in section 61 of the Act of 1970, following an assessment of needs made on behalf of the Executive that the service is so required, | ||
(e) the dental, ophthalmic and aural services specified in section 67 of the Act of 1970, | ||
(f) a counselling service relevant to a former resident’s admission to and experience in any of the institutions specified in the Schedule to the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 , | ||
(g) a chiropody service, following a referral made in that regard by a registered medical practitioner or registered nurse, and | ||
(h) a physiotherapy service, following a referral made in that regard by a registered medical practitioner. | ||
(2) Notwithstanding any other enactment but subject to the taking of suitable and specific measures— | ||
(a) the Minister may disclose personal data, including special categories of personal data, to the Executive where necessary and proportionate to enable the Executive to process such data pursuant to, and for the purposes of, paragraph (c), | ||
(b) the Executive may disclose personal data, including special categories of personal data, to the Minister where necessary and proportionate to enable the Minister to process such data pursuant to, and for the purposes of, paragraph (d), | ||
(c) the Executive may process personal data, including special categories of personal data, disclosed to the Executive by the Minister, pursuant to paragraph (a), where necessary and proportionate for the purposes of enabling the Executive to provide the services set out in subsection (1), and | ||
(d) the Minister may process personal data, including special categories of personal data, disclosed to him or her by the Executive, pursuant to paragraph (b), where necessary and proportionate for the purposes of enabling the Executive to provide the services set out in subsection (1). | ||
(3) In this section— | ||
“Act of 1970” means the Health Act 1970; | ||
“Executive” means the Health Service Executive; | ||
“registered medical practitioner” has the same meaning as it has in the Medical Practitioners Act 2007 ; | ||
“registered nurse” has the same meaning as it has in the Nurses and Midwives Act 2011 . |