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Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)

Terry Leyden: It is easy to know he is a journalist.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2008)

Terry Leyden: I support Senator Labhrás Ó Murchú's request with regard to RTE and the continuation of medium wave services. Approximately 10% of listeners have medium wave and it is used quite extensively, particularly overseas as well as here at home. I cannot understand what justification RTE would give for the discontinuation of the service. Perhaps we could request the Leader to have the matter...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: The Senator should congratulate him on his wedding also.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: There is no crime in the Seanad.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: I support the calls for discussions between the Irish Pharmaceutical Union and the Health Service Executive on the proposals for the reduction of the fees paid to independent pharmacies.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: This is a HSE, not a Government matter. The issue will arise at the Oireachtas joint committee next Tuesday. It is important such discussions take place. I urge the independent pharmacists not to sign any contract at this stage pending the outcome of the negotiations and discussions. We dealt with the Irish Pharmaceutical Union last year in the context of an important Bill and found it a...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: If the issue is not settled, there will be wholesale unemployment in small pharmacies.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: Many pharmacists have entered long-term contracts through the deal they had with the former health boards, the Department and the HSE. Those contracts are being broken now, without negotiation or discussion. I think the issue will be resolved. We solve everything over here, eventually.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: However, it takes time. Finally, I condemn the activities of the editors of RTE's nine o'clock news last week. They used a half cocked, fabricated document - seven pages were taken out of 56 pages. I hope Senator Eugene Regan, the expert on the tribunal-----

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: This is the Oireachtas. The nine o'clock news did not give the facts that Mr. Turner was entitled to a passport because his mother was Mary Margaret McCarthy from Cork.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: My point is that editorial control in RTE has to be tightened to ensure documents from the tribunal-----

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: It is my personal advice.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: Work is getting scarce.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: Where is Senator Eugene Regan now?

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: It means much to me.

Seanad: National Waste Strategy: Statements (6 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: I join others in welcoming the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Pat the Cope Gallagher, to the House. When I was Minister of State at the then Department of Health in 1987, I was made national chairman of the drugs action committee. It was a revelation to me, coming from a rural constituency, to see the amount of drugs being used at that time, especially in...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: I join Senators Quinn and Mullen in saying that it is fortunate Senator Mary White has decided to seek the Fianna Fáil nomination for the Presidency.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: It is fitting she is present this morning. We have had lawyers elected to the Presidency but we now need an enterprise President in the difficult times we face.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: Ageism, suicide and children——