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Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: We want services, not facts.

Seanad: Home Help Service: Motion. (19 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: I move: "That Seanad Éireann, conscious of the valuable and mainly unrecognised work carried out by home helps, calls on the Minister for Health and Children to: —regulate their contracts of employment; —recognise the need for the regulation of their working hours and pay scales, under partnership agreements; —provide home helps with adequate training; —rectify the position of home...

Seanad: Home Help Service: Motion. (19 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: It is evident in the Senator's home town of Mullingar where a shell of a building has been left idle.

Seanad: Home Help Service: Motion. (19 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: It has been left idle for 11 years.

Seanad: Home Help Service: Motion. (19 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: That is spin.

Seanad: Home Help Service: Motion. (19 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: The Senator is losing touch.

Seanad: Home Help Service: Motion. (19 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: Where is the evidence?

Seanad: Home Help Service: Motion. (19 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: That is all the Senator is about. Sitting on committees, one after another.

Seanad: Home Help Service: Motion. (19 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: She is a long time delivering them.

Seanad: Home Help Service: Motion. (19 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: There is no talk about delivery.

Seanad: Home Help Service: Motion. (19 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: On a point of order, the Senator referred to my having been a member of a health board.

Seanad: Home Help Service: Motion. (19 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: The health board of which I was a member was controlled by Fianna Fáil.

Seanad: Home Help Service: Motion. (19 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: For the past 20 years all the health boards were controlled by Fianna Fáil.

Seanad: Home Help Service: Motion. (19 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: Yes.

Seanad: Home Help Service: Motion. (19 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: Is that a new sound bite?

Seanad: Home Help Service: Motion. (19 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: Senator Leyden is spinning it again. He is the Roscommon spinner.

Seanad: Home Help Service: Motion. (19 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: I thank the Minister for State for listening to this debate and compliment the Senators who made contributions to it, particularly those from this side of the House. Instead of tabling an amendment to the motion, it would have been better for the Government to apologise to the public for wasting public funding. We have learned in the last week that the Government wasted €3 million on a...

Seanad: Home Help Service: Motion. (19 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: Another area, raised by Senator Glynn, who is commenting now ——

Seanad: Home Help Service: Motion. (19 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: Senator Glynn marched in Mullingar with me in protest at the Government's neglect of health services in the midlands ——

Seanad: Home Help Service: Motion. (19 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: Senator Glynn marched with me in Mullingar ——