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Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: That remains to be seen. Did the Minister of State say a connected person can make the application but cannot appeal? That confuses me. It may be that in my advancing years I am more easily confused than before but in this case I do not think so. I do not have great faith in the constitutional judgment of the Parliamentary Counsel. It has been found wrong as often as it has been found right....

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: We know that.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: No. On the heads of the Government be it.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 14: In page 19, subsection (2), line 37, after "then" to insert: "the Executive shall make a decision to that effect, and shall notify the person to whom the payment was made (or his or her estate) of that decision, and the person or his or her estate may appeal to a person appointed under section 16(3) in respect of such decision within 14 days, (on grounds to be...

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister of State should put that in the legislation.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Where does it say that?

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Social welfare has a system of appeals.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It does not say that anywhere.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It does not say that.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It does not say any of this.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Now I know what they are doing. The reason for conflating overpayment and payment procured through fraud or misrepresentation is to use the latter to justify a brutally insensitive method of recovering money. The Minister for State says such people will receive written notification but there is nothing here to indicate that. The HSE and its various agencies have much to learn and are often...

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Come on.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: No.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Where did the Government get the advice that a bureaucrat can decide that something has been done through fraud? There is no adjudication by any court on this issue, it is not being suggested that an individual will be brought to court in order retrieve the money. What is being said is that some bureaucrat or whiz kid executive of a new agency will decide that the agency has been defrauded....

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I am taking the executive at its word.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I can imagine State agencies making mistakes.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: They would put their hands out looking for money to be returned.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The HSE is the most impenetrable body ever created in this State.

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Committee Stage (Resumed). (20 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 4: In page 13, lines 9 to 11, to delete subsection (14) and substitute the following new subsection: "(14) Not less than 40% of the members of a Body shall be men and not less than 40% shall be women.". The Cathaoirleach is proceeding very fast. In Ireland we always aspire to what is regarded as the best. We are discussing a series of bodies that to a large extent, though...

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Committee Stage (Resumed). (20 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I am not addressing this issue to the Minister of State, Deputy Tom Kitt, with whom I get on well, but I am always amazed at the way in which the Government can understand the positions of the powerful but as one moves down the chain of power in society can go into a position of absolute rigidity. I recall the Government's decision to exempt itself from any of the provisions of the Freedom of...