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Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (8 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 2: In page 17, to delete lines 13 to 19 of the text inserted by Government amendment No. 25 at Committee and substitute the following: "(2) The Health Service Executive shall publish all information supplied to it under subsection 1(a) and may for statistical purposes retain and process information given to it under subsection (1) provided that information supplied under...

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (8 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I agree a large overlap exists. I am glad the Government tabled its amendment. It would have been an unfortunate omission to leave the Bill as it was. While I do not wish to blow my own trumpet this is the third time in less than two years I had to point out errors in legislation. The National Economic and Social Development Office Bill had a section prohibiting Members of the Oireachtas...

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (8 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister of State should stop or I will begin to blush. I am not used to this.

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (8 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I appreciate that and I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (8 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Will the Minister of State accept my amendment?

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (8 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I had a funny feeling there would be a sting in the tail.

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (8 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I have learned the hard way to be wary of any Government explaining that it does not want to make public disclosures because they may become too cumbersome. In my experience of a variety of Governments in the past 25 years all disclosure is deemed too cumbersome so their instinct is to disclose as little as possible. It is a pity the Minister of State did not say explicitly which data must...

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (8 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I have held him in high regard for some time. He has also been helpful to my family on a few occasions.

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (8 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I thank the Minister of State for the spirit in which he dealt with our little complaints. I appreciate his good humour and willingness to respond. Like my colleagues, I do not regard the Bill as a momentous event. We have not yet started to embrace the gradual change to an ageing society, which is not as dramatic as scaremongers would have us believe. There is a resistance to the idea of...

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (8 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: We will be on different sides. Senator Glynn will be on this side and I will be on that side.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: The transformation of a dying wasp into a threat to the security of the State is perhaps one of the most remarkable transformations. The Tánaiste told us less than two years ago that the gangland killings were the last sting of a dying wasp. They have now been transformed into a threat to the security of the State and to the Irish way of life that we have all grown to love. I agree with...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: When we were in power we finally sorted out the mess they created. We had higher growth and lower inflation on the only occasion there was a Labour Party Minister for Finance.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: The economy grew better, unemployment decreased more quickly and inflation was lower. On all three indices, this Government has made a mess of it.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: They led the country and they are not happy either. On a specific issue, there is much talk about the consultants' contract and many people have numerous qualms about hospital consultants. Being married to one, I must be measured in what I say.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: There is nothing incompatible between smoked salmon and socialism. It was James Larkin who said that the working class were entitled to bread and roses. I happen to believe strongly in the bread and roses version of socialism that James Larkin articulated, and I stand over it. The Members here who do not know about whom I am married to obviously do not participate because I have said it...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: As I stated to the Cathaoirleach previously, I am not interrupting myself. In the proposals for the contract is a silencing clause which would require consultants not to criticise the services. That is the most appalling attempt to silence the people who have endeavoured most effectively to tell us what is wrong in accident and emergency departments, with neurological services and with...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Some 200,000 medical cards.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: It is St. Valentine's Day, after all.

Seanad: Hospital Infections: Motion (14 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: They are tougher too.