Laws regulating cosmetic surgery planned

Laws to regulate the cosmetic surgery industry are being prepared, according to Health Minister James Reilly.

These would include qualification standards for staff. However, there is still no date for their introduction — four years after a report on patient safety identified cosmetic surgery as a priority area for a licensing and inspection regime.

Dr Reilly was asked in a written Dáil question if he intended to update the regulatory regime after the PIP scandal in which 1,500 Irish women received defective breast implants.