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- Seanad: Order of Business. (7 Jul 2004)
Paul Bradford: It is a well-deserved award.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2004)
Paul Bradford: I support calls for further debate on decentralisation. The proper forum for such a debate is the appropriate Oireachtas committee. However, a message should go from this House that, while there is unanimous support for a programme of decentralisation, there are issues that need to be raised and questions to be answered. That needs to be done in the calm light of day. There was all-party...
- Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)
Paul Bradford: I wish to share time with Senator Cummins.
- Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)
Paul Bradford: This is an important debate, but given the contributions from the Government side what depresses me is that the problem is not recognised. I listened with interest to what the Minister said and indeed read his script. I also listened today to what the Minister for Finance said. At lunchtime I felt a certain sympathy for the Minister, Deputy Martin, who sends out media signals indicating he is...
- Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)
Paul Bradford: It is frightening that she does not recognise that. The Minister spoke about the improvements. Of course there have been major improvements and technology has improved worldwide, so why should it not in Ireland? Medical procedure has improved worldwide and therefore in Ireland. I do not think anyone challenged Senator Ryan's assertion that there are no hospital waiting lists in a number of...
- Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)
Paul Bradford: ââare being dealt with. The Minister is sending a wrong signal. We have to recognise that there is a grave crisis. It needs to be tackled and we should stop making excuses.
- Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)
Paul Bradford: Not for trolleys in hospitals anyway.
- Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)
Paul Bradford: As do the trolleys.
- Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)
Paul Bradford: That is Ireland in 2004.
- Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)
Paul Bradford: It is what people believe.
- Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)
Paul Bradford: Tell that to the Minister for Finance.
- Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)
Paul Bradford: We know who has won that debate.
- Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)
Paul Bradford: The cuts go back to 1987 and the slogan that health cuts hurt the old, the sick and the poor.
- Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)
Paul Bradford: The rate of expenditure is what the Minister should talk about. It is serious if the Minister believes this.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2004)
Paul Bradford: During the summer recess we will be in a position to reflect on the tenth anniversary of the 1994 IRA ceasefire. As someone who believes in the glass being half full rather than half empty, this island has been transformed over the past decade. There has been a sea change in politics on the island. We are now entering the next crucial phase in the ongoing debate on the future of Northern...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Jun 2004)
Paul Bradford: It does not sound like that.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Jun 2004)
Paul Bradford: I concur with my colleagues who referred to the status of undocumented Irish people in the US. A decade or so ago, we thought this problem had been resolved by means of the tremendous progress made with the Morrison and Donnelly visas and other initiatives taken by the US authorities. However, it now appears from information available to us that a sizeable number of undocumented Irish people...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Jun 2004)
Paul Bradford: On a number of occasions over the past 12 months I have raised the matter of our failure to take any meaningful measures to promote the local elections and to encourage people to vote. Our local elections are only a week away. However, the Minister has compounded the problem by deciding that polling stations should close at 9 p.m. on voting day, Friday, 11 June. This is inexcusable in the...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Jun 2004)
Paul Bradford: Polling stations have closed previously at 10 p.m. This is a poor signal from the Government. Even at this late stage, I ask the Minister to reconsider allowing the stations to close at 10 p.m. Workers and students returning home should be allowed the extra hour for voting. If we are serious about promoting democracy, we should take the simple straightforward measure of extending the opening...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (27 May 2004)
Paul Bradford: I support Senator Browne and my other colleagues who called for a debate and, I hope, some progress on the electoral registration process. I have raised on a number of occasions my disappointment that at national level the Oireachtas and the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government have made no effort to promote local elections and encourage people to vote. It is more than...