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Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2015: Second Stage (28 May 2015)

Thomas Byrne: -----the High Sheriff will suppress such insolent practices with a posse [Senator Norris can be in the posse] and apprehend the principal actors in the said riot and have them prosecuted with the most rigorous of the law." The legislation will remove this from the Statute Book, and I am very glad of it. All joking aside, these were very difficult times for the Roman Catholic population of...

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2015: Second Stage (28 May 2015)

Thomas Byrne: Do we not want to take it now? We could take Report Stage as well.

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2015: Second Stage (28 May 2015)

Thomas Byrne: He wants to keep the Penal Laws.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2015)

Thomas Byrne: I second the important amendment proposed by Senator White. I wish to speak about IBRC, the commission of investigation, the role of the Seanad and all the issues that have brought this to a head this week. It is very important to remember that under the commission of investigation legislation, the Seanad has the same role as the Dáil. This commission of investigation cannot go ahead...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2015)

Thomas Byrne: Yes, I agree but it is not a matter for the courts.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2015)

Thomas Byrne: It is not a matter for the courts, it is a matter for the House.

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Jun 2015)

Thomas Byrne: I disagree with Senator Norris. Good riddance to these proclamations of the 18th century because, in the main, they were penal laws which subjugated the people of this country at the time.

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Jun 2015)

Thomas Byrne: I do not have the text of this legislation relating to that Lord Lieutenant, who I believe was the Duke of Devonshire. I certainly do not support that legislation and I do not wish to keep it.

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Jun 2015)

Thomas Byrne: We do not.

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Jun 2015)

Thomas Byrne: In many ways-----

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Jun 2015)

Thomas Byrne: In many ways it is ludicrous to debate a piece of legislation that was spent nearly 200 years ago.The context of the Bill is the penal laws of this country-----

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Jun 2015)

Thomas Byrne: -----under which the majority of the people suffered grievously under the lord lieutenants and their legislation.

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Jun 2015)

Thomas Byrne: Let us do this as quickly as possible.

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Jun 2015)

Thomas Byrne: I know Senator David Norris does much for Georgian Dublin but he is in danger of turning the Seanad into a Georgian parliamentary chamber because we have debating issues that are utterly irrelevant. Listening to the debate about the items that are spent, I wonder whether it is worth the time of civil servants going through items that are clearly spent and clearly have no application....

Seanad: Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (11 Jun 2015)

Thomas Byrne: I will not use all of my allotted time. My party supports the continued operation of the Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act, as I have done every year in this House. We brought that in at a time of terrible strife in this country. It was done at a time when we thought we would have uninterrupted peace but, sadly, peace did not last. Unfortunately, there are still people who do not...

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Thomas Byrne: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit as teacht isteach sa Teach le míniú a thabhairt ar an mBille seo. I welcome the Minister of State to the House to discuss the Health (General Practitioner Services) Bill 2015. The general effect of this Bill is to give back to the over-70s what has been taken from them, partially by the previous Government but mainly by this Government...

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Thomas Byrne: No, it is not.

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Thomas Byrne: Many families have been asking me for the past year and a half, since this was first announced, when it would come in. Many families will not benefit from this at all as their children have gone past six years of age. The demographics are changing in this country. There was a baby boom a few years ago.

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Thomas Byrne: As a former leader of my party might have said, the baby boom is not as boomy as it was, but the Government seem to be categorising groups in the hope of getting a few votes out of it while people in the middle are really struggling. There is a case in County Meath at the moment where a child cannot get treatment in Ireland, or in England for that matter.

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Thomas Byrne: I assume the child has a medical card. The treatment is not available here, so the child has to go to America for treatment. I had another case last year but that child seems to have recovered. There are a lot of problems with the health service and it is wrong to suggest this will change things. It will not. Does the Minister of State have the up to date county by county figures?...