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Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 85: In page 48, line 35, to delete subsection (2). The lawyer from whom I take advice on these matters is a man of delicate sensitivities. He suggests subsection (2) is unnecessary because repeals are announced in section 4 and further stated in Schedule 4.

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I am not trying to be awkward but to be helpful. This deals with an amendment to the Poisons Act. Subsection (1), in referring to section 18 of that Act, reads: A person who . . . keeps open shop for the sale of poisons commits an offence. (2) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to the keeping of open shop by a person of a class specified in regulations under section 14 who is keeping...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Subsection (1) reads, "A code of conduct having effect under sections. . . and regulations made under section . . . shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas . . .". That is a great idea and I have no problem with it. Subsection (2) reads, "If a resolution annulling these regulations . . . ". Codes of conduct are not regulations; they are codes of conduct approved by the Minister....

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: That is fine.

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 87: In page 51, paragraph 2, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: "(2) A disqualification pursuant to an order of a court referred to in subparagraph (1)(a), (c), (d), (e) or (f) shall not take effect until the ordinary time for appealing against any such order has expired, or if an appeal is lodged within that time, until any such appeal, or a further appeal...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 92: In page 54, paragraph 9, after line 44, to insert the following: "(8) A disclosure under this paragraph or paragraph 10 shall be recorded in a register together with particulars of any interest of members of the Authority or persons to whom paragraph 10 applies, and the register shall be available to public inspection during office hours.". This amendment is to ensure...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 96: In page 58, after line 42, to insert the following: "Accountability to Houses of the Oireachtas 22. When required by a committee of either or both Houses of the Oireachtas, the President of the Society shall appear before the committee to account for the general administration of the Society.". A body which has the level and scale of responsibilities that the society...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister deserves compliments. This is a good Bill which is dreadfully overdue. It takes political will and clout to get the job done. There is limited political kudos for either the Minister or the Opposition in dealing with a Bill such as this. It is not the stuff that persuades the colourful writers in the Sunday newspapers to talk about it. If they do, they will state we spent a...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: One could not let the occasion pass without paying enormous tribute to all those involved in the Northern peace process. I am glad Senator O'Toole mentioned politicians. We should stop apologising to the media for the fact that they find politics boring. The wonderful thing about politics is that it is boring. We are not threatening, fighting, shooting or kidnapping each other. It is a...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: It would be even more boring if Senator Norris were not here.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: It would be much easier, however, if Senator Norris did not feel the need to interrupt me.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Ever since I said something rude about Trinity College he has never forgiven me.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: The unforgivable sin.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: When Senator Norris starts calling me "dear" I have to ask for your protection, a Chathaoirligh.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: We should note that politics works, and more often than many of its trivial critics would suggest. I was lucky that I diverted from Abbeyleix this morning or I would not be in the Chamber because I would have been stuck in a traffic jam.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: There are many questions to be asked. Speed limits are not absolutes. They are the maximum permissible speed, but not the speed at which it is always safe to drive. Drivers must remember that they are not allowed to drive at 120 km/h on a fog-bound motorway. They do not have a legal right to drive at that speed in those conditions, and if they do so, they can and should be prosecuted for...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I want to say that clearly and unequivocally. The Minister for Health and Children said the reason the new maternity hospital in Cork had not opened was because of money. She also said that it was a disgrace. If that were the case, of course, it would be. I know people who are going to work in that hospital and it was not about money.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: It was about the fact that those nurses were genuinely concerned that the hospital could not be run safely with the proposed numbers. Like every other parent in Cork, I have seen the quality of the city's maternity services, including midwifery and nursing care. The suggestion that those people are being greedy is a gross insult to them. It is even more offensive to the people of Cork,...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Health Bill 2006: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I wish to record my eternal objection to legislation which gives the Minister carte blanche to ignore the legislation, which is what this section involves. Every Bill which contains an open-ended timeframe for its implementation is, essentially, handing over to the Government the legislative role of the Oireachtas. I have always objected to this practice, and I wish to put my objection on...