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Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: A bit more than beyond the Pale.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Externally, but not internally.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Some 435,000 people are out of work.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We were not able to colonise.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: What have we achieved?

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: No real reform, though.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: They also have good Ministers for Finance.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: To catch them anyway.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Home birthing.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. The prescription charge in the Bill will not make the healthy choice the easier choice, particularly for vulnerable groups. We must remember it is doctors who prescribe, not patients. Perhaps the Minister should target the doctors rather than making patients pay. Let us look at the facts. I am basing all my points on evidence. Thirty per cent of the...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Not in Galway. Galway is unique in not having a warfarin clinic. This is because of the glut and the need to get it into the community. The health promotion evidence is all about making the healthy choice the easier choice. Cochrane Collaboration, an international drugs review body that assesses health systems and the effectiveness of drugs, found that introducing prescription charges...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We have heard that before. I was involved in health promotion with the Midland Health Board from 1998 to 2002. I was at that point involved in a review of primary health care units. We still do not have one in Galway.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The review also found that the failure to take prescribed medicine has a direct adverse effect on health and results in increased use of health care services and higher health care expenditure. All my points show that the 50 cent charge is short-sighted and is merely a Band-Aid to a bullet hole. The conclusion of the Cochrane Collaboration review is that "increasing cost-sharing may present...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Some have closed.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: A good idea.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: True.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is very relevant.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The joke is that while the recession might be technically over people are still hurting financially and personally. There are two examples that should be addressed. First is the high cost of food in our supermarkets, the low cost of alcohol and how that is contributing to the high cost of food. It is an absolute scandal that alcohol could be more important than food in this society. Will...

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State. Can the Minister of State tell us where are the files on the 20 couples in abeyance for more than one year? Those dossiers were in Vietnam before 1 May 2009 when the Ireland-Vietnam bilateral agreement closed. They are waiting and they are afraid to speak out. If they speak out as a group, they are afraid it will mitigate against them. They do not know...

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This is important.