Brennan Report - Department of Health and Children

Appendix 3Name of AgencyBord na Radharcmhastóirí(Opticians Board)An Bord Cioch Scrúdaithe Naisiúnta(National Breast Screening Board)Comhairle na Nimheanna(Poisons Council)Comhairle na nOspidéalAn Comhairle Fíaclóireachta(Dental Council)Consultative Council on Hepatitis CCrisis Pregnancy AgencyDrug Treatment Centre BoardFood Safety Authority of IrelandFood Safety Consultative CouncilFunctionsThe regulatory body for opticians. The Board’s main functionsinclude the training and registration of ophthalmic anddispensing opticians and regulating the practice of optics.Responsible for the National Breast Screening Programmewhich aims to reduce breast cancer related deaths in women.Advises the Minister for Health and Children on the controlof poisons.The statutory body responsible for regulating the number ofand type of consultant and senior registrar appointments andfor specifying the necessary qualifications for these posts.The regulatory body for the dental profession. Its functionsinclude maintaining a register of dentists and dental specialists,ensuring that the standards of dental training are maintainedand inquiring into the fitness of a dentist to practice onspecific grounds.To advise and make recommendations on all aspects ofHepatitis C and in particular on the organisation, delivery andconfidentiality of services, developments arising from researchinto Hepatitis C under the aegis of the Health Research Board,and the publication of information on Hepatitis C.To prepare a crisis pregnancy strategy and implement itsobjectives thereafter. This strategy is to provide for:- A reduction in the number of crisis pregnancies.- A reduction of the number of women with crisispregnancies who opt for abortion.- The provision of counselling and medical services aftercrisis pregnancy.Provides a range of programmes for the treatment of drugaddiction.Provides advice on issues relating to safety, nutrition, food lawand other matters regarding the processing and sale of food.To enable the Food Safety Authority of Ireland to consultrepresentatives of consumers, producers, retailers, distributors,caterers and manufacturers and, where appropriate, officialagencies about the activities or other measures to beundertaken for the purpose of establishing and maintaining thehighest level of standards of food hygiene and safety reasonablyavailable in the interests of public health and consumerprotection.155