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Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (7 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: What about their pension? I forgot to ask that.

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (7 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: Perhaps the Minister of State will respond to this point.

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (7 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: He is well worth listening to.

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (7 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: I asked the Minister of State if he would clarify the position about people having to sell their homes.

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (7 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: The Minister of State referred to the principal residence. They would only have one home.

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (7 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: After the Christmas recess.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: The Order of Business is No. 1, a motion to refer without debate to the Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights for consideration the subject matter of No. 18 on the Order Paper, namely, the extension of the period of detention of an arrested person for questioning in a Garda station from 12 to 24 hours; No. 2, a motion to refer without debate to the Joint Committee...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: Seán de Rossa.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: They removed them.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: On policing?

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: The Morris and Barr tribunals and so on.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: It ended five minutes early.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: In speaking about the dreadful double murder this morning in Finglas, Senator Brian Hayes observed that for many years we all worried privately and in our public discussions about the activities of subversives and that what is happening now is another type of subversion, equally dangerous to that which occupied our minds for so long. He asked how the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: Yes. Senator Ormonde called for a debate on auctioneering and congratulated the Minister for Health and Children on her imaginative scheme for care for the elderly. The weather on Sunday was dreadful but I thoroughly enjoyed Senator Ross's article in the Sunday Independent. It was a clever piece in which, under the name Seán de Rossa, he applied for an auctioneer's licence and received it...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: Senator Norris claimed the nursing homes Bill collapsed last week. I was in the Chamber for what was a lively debate on the Bill. Every Member who wished to speak on it had an opportunity to do so. It did not collapse in the real meaning of the term. It ended five minutes earlier than its allocated time.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: Senator Norris spoke very well in the debate about his dear aunt who was in the Alexandria nursing home. Senator Norris called for the Minister for Foreign Affairs to call in the Iranian ambassador to rebuke him on a conference being held in Tehran. Senator John Paul Phelan spoke on armed crime in Finglas and the killing of the postmaster in County Kilkenny. The victim did have Roscommon...

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (13 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: I wish to express the sympathy of the House and of our party at the very sad death of the former Senator Andy O'Brien, who served for many years in this Chamber and whom the Cathaoirleach would have known very well. His family is here today. While for them it is a sad occasion, for us it is good to get to meet those he left behind. His lovely grandchildren show the recurring theme of...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: It never happened to me in all my years in public life so I regret the Senator was absent when the Minister was present to take the Adjournment debate. The Order of Business is No. 1, Defamation Bill 2006, Second Stage (resumed), to be taken at the conclusion of the Order of Business and to conclude no later than 1.30 p.m. with the contributions of Senators not to exceed ten minutes and the...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: Did the Senator win?

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: Senator Brian Hayes raised the matter as to why the motion in my name with regard to Mr. Brian Curtin is still on the Order Paper. I will obtain a satisfactory explanation which is what the Senator seeks. Senator Hayes also congratulated the Minister of State at the Department of Education and Science, Deputy Haughey. Most people in this House do so. Senator Hayes also spoke about Mr....