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Functions assigned to the Council.
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14.—(1) The following functions in relation to the participating hospitals (in this Act referred to as functions assigned to the Council) shall be performed by the Council:
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(a) during the period of four years beginning on the establishment day, the examination of annual estimates and supplementary estimates of expenditure on the running of hospitals, and suggesting of amendments to such estimates,
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(b) after the expiration of the said period, the approval of estimates and supplementary estimates of expenditure on the running of hospitals and the approval of any amendments of such estimates,
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(c) the submission of claims to the Hospitals Commission for payment on foot of deficits,
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(d) the control of capital expenditure (that is to say, expenditure in respect of major structural undertakings, expenditure in respect of the provision and renewal of equipment for specialised units and all other expenditure of an exceptional or extraordinary nature) and of applications for funds for such expenditure,
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(e) the determination of the form of accounts to be kept by hospitals,
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(f) the appointment of visiting medical staff (all such appointments being to the Federated Dublin Voluntary Hospitals and not to an individual hospital),
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(g) the assignment, subject to subsection (2) of this section, to individual hospitals of the visiting medical staff so appointed,
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(h) the determination of the hospitals in which particular clinical units shall be located,
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(i) the assignment of professorial units to particular hospitals,
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(j) the apportionment of beds among the visiting medical staff,
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(k) the co-ordination of activities in relation to medical education, the conduct of negotiations in regard to such education with the appropriate university, college or other institution (including the making of suitable agreements with such bodies to ensure efficient clinical instruction for medical students) and the provision of facilities for post graduate instruction,
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(l) subject to subsection (3) of this section, the co-ordination of activities in relation to nursing education and the conduct of negotiations in regard to such education with An Bord Altranais,
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(m) any other functions which may be assigned to the Council by resolution passed by the boards of all the hospitals.
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(2) The Council shall not assign any visiting medical staff to a participating hospital of a particular denominational character unless the assignment is in accord with such character save with the approval of the hospital board concerned.
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(3) In the exercise of its functions in relation to the co-ordination of the activities of the participating hospitals in the matter of nursing education and the conduct of negotiations in regard to such matters with An Bord Altranais, the Council shall take no action which would operate to—
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(a) involve a student nurse in any arrangement for attending lectures on the ethics and psychology of nursing which do not conform to her religious beliefs, or
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(b) interfere with the autonomy of a nursing school attached to any participating hospital of a particular denominational character.
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(4) On and after the transfer day, the Council shall perform the functions which, immediately before the transfer day, were performable by hospital boards.
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(5) Nothing in this section shall operate to terminate or affect in any way any rights which a person who, immediately before the establishment day, was a member of the visiting medical staff of a particular participating hospital then had as such member.
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