Results 3,201-3,220 of 6,030 for speaker:Brendan Ryan
- Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)
Brendan Ryan: Sell the house.
- Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)
Brendan Ryan: I would not.
- Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)
Brendan Ryan: I might not be a Member of this House.
- Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)
Brendan Ryan: I am tempted to oppose this but I will not.
- Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)
Brendan Ryan: I am well aware that some of what is contained in section 3 was introduced when my party was in Government because that is the usual defence, but I believe it to be the wrong way to go. We are showing a level of defensiveness that will create the equivalent of a moral panic over the population gradually and gently getting older. I invite someone to explain why this rigmarole must be...
- Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)
Brendan Ryan: Why should the name and address of a commercial home care provider be regarded as confidential? I understand fully why the name and address of the service recipient should be confidential. Why should the public not know who the HSE contracts to provide home care services? How will we conduct checks on the probity, reliability and truthfulness of home care providers if we do not know who...
- Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)
Brendan Ryan: The new subsection (2) will state: The Health Service Executive may, for statistical purposes, retain and process information given to it under subsection (1) provided that such information is not publicly disclosed except in the form of a summary so compiled as to prevent particulars relating to the identity of any home care provider, or of any person for whom any home care provider provides...
- Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)
Brendan Ryan: This discussion should not take two minutes. All the Minister of State should do is remove the provision, particularly if it means nothing, and keep this cranky fellow here happy. No reason exists for a prohibition. Is this is a classic act of making something secret and seeing whether the public will find out about it? It should be dropped. What was intended was that the names of those...
- Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)
Brendan Ryan: I apologise for holding up the House and I do not want to keep us here all day. The legislation states, "provided that such information is not publicly disclosed except in the form of a summary so compiled as to prevent particulars relating to the identity of any home care provider, or of any person for whom any home care provider provides home care services, being ascertained from it."....
- Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)
Brendan Ryan: I was quite happy to agree to take Report Stage today, but the Minister of State was most unhelpful and I want time to introduce an amendment on Report Stage.
- Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)
Brendan Ryan: No.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2007)
Brendan Ryan: I hope the Cathaoirleach will indulge me by allowing me to thank the Fianna Fáil press office for the enormous publicity it generated for me by objecting to a photograph of myself and Fidel Castro.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2007)
Brendan Ryan: I am grateful for the press office's professionalism and efficiency, and would like to record my awe of its skill at getting publicity for Opposition Members.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2007)
Brendan Ryan: I appreciate the Cathaoirleach's indulgence.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2007)
Brendan Ryan: Can we have a debate in the immediate future on the grievances being articulated by nurses, the apparent conflict, once more, between the Taoiseach and Minister for Health and Children regarding the approach to this issue, the apparent dissent within one of the Government parties to the Minister's approach, and, far more seriously, the quality of the working conditions and rewards we offer to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Feb 2007)
Brendan Ryan: I thank the Deputy Leader.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Feb 2007)
Brendan Ryan: That is not fair to the public service.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Feb 2007)
Brendan Ryan: It is the fault of management.
- Seanad: National Development Plan: Motion (7 Feb 2007)
Brendan Ryan: On a point of order, is it in order for the Minister, with all due respect, to take up as much as 35 minutes of our time?
- Seanad: National Development Plan: Motion (7 Feb 2007)
Brendan Ryan: He has already spoken for 20 minutes and is only now beginning to read his script.