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Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ——and health and safety issues. The Cathaoirleach should allow me to finish. This is why the matter is urgent. I urge the Deputy Leader to meet the Minister for Education and Science to ask her to sign off on the commitment she made to give this school the go-ahead. The school's planning permission is running out. This is the community's concern. If it loses this opportunity with...

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This commitment was made in 2001 and bolstered in three elections since then by this Government as a full promise.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Absolutely.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Senator Harris was allowed to talk about it.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes, that is what we want.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Would the Acting Leader intervene on behalf of Glenamaddy community school?

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This is too urgent, because planning permission——

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: All I am asking is if the Deputy will make an intervention.

Seanad: Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (4 Mar 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is a bit early yet.

Seanad: Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (4 Mar 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The figure was for the first two days after the deadline had passed.

Seanad: Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (4 Mar 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Absolutely.

Seanad: Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (4 Mar 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I agree with the Minister's aim to save €100 million on the costs of drugs to the HSE. However, I vehemently disagree with her uncompromising method of achieving that end. The Minister may be proud of being Machiavellian but it is an approach I deplore. A recent letter to The Irish Times pointed out the Minister is showing an iron fist to community pharmacists, a fist she lacked when...

Seanad: Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (4 Mar 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Gabh mo leithscéal. The Minister has refused to negotiate with the IPU. It has urged pharmacists to continue dispensing medical card prescriptions, despite the massive cut in their fees, as a token of goodwill and to allow time to find a formula to resolve the issue. What compromise is the Minister willing to make to prevent this dispute escalating? I do not know where pharmacists'...

Seanad: Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (4 Mar 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is because they are a decent group of people. They have not been treated decently, though.

Seanad: Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (4 Mar 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: After the hatchet has come down.

Seanad: Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (4 Mar 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is double-speak.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is not implemented.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I join with others in congratulating Dr. Paisley on his retirement. He was a frightening ogre in my childhood and youth but however slowly it came about he should take a bow today because he negotiated in the end and that must be noted, unlike the entrenched position taken by the Minister, Deputy Mary Harney, with pharmacists. Like me, many Members are concerned about the slow death we are...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: If I may finish this point. I call it a slow death because we are not about to see the visible closures of pharmacies but we are now seeing——

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ——protective notice placed on workers in pharmacies.