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Seanad: Civil Liability and Courts Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (8 Jul 2004)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Yes I can, if it is of assistance.

Seanad: Civil Liability and Courts Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (8 Jul 2004)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: My notes do not cover every amendment because some of the amendments are very technical. Where there are amendments of substance I have notes which I can make available to all Senators.

Seanad: Civil Liability and Courts Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (8 Jul 2004)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Again, a large number of these amendments are technical in character. Amendment No. 20 deletes the original subsection and substitutes two new subsections. Subsection (4) clarifies the intention of the section with regard to the powers of the rules of court committee. Subsection (5) is necessary to ensure that the reference to the courts earlier in the section includes the Master of the High...

Seanad: Civil Liability and Courts Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (8 Jul 2004)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Senator O'Meara appeared to be a little concerned about publication of the register. It must be realised that this is a targeted register as it relates to personal injuries proceedings. While, as the Senator rightly said, the will of everyone who dies is published in the probate office and the Revenue make certain statements also, this register is being created for the specific purpose of...

Seanad: Civil Liability and Courts Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (8 Jul 2004)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I wish to highlight the most significant amendments concerning dormant funds, which are now contained in sections 33 to 38, inclusive, of the Bill as passed by the Dáil. In amendments Nos. 39 and 41 certain new definitions have been added. The new definition of financial institutions allows greater flexibility to the Courts Service when deciding which financial institution should handle its...

Seanad: Civil Liability and Courts Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (8 Jul 2004)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The first important set of amendments in this grouping consists of amendments Nos. 47 to 55, inclusive, to the section which relaxes the in camera rule in family law cases. Senators will recall the detailed discussion of this proposal on Committee Stage when the Minister readily accepted that the section in the Bill, as initiated, was not adequate. The Minister brought forward in the Dáil...

Seanad: Civil Liability and Courts Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (8 Jul 2004)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Many bodies have been established in recent years that are concerned about the impact of matrimonial, family and domestic litigation on people's lives and fortunes. We have to strike difficult balances in these matters. To answer one of Senator O'Meara's questions directly, not all of the amendments proposed by the organisation to which she referred were accepted. In this legislation we have,...

Seanad: Civil Liability and Courts Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (8 Jul 2004)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: We do not know. At least we will now have an evidential basis from which we will be able to find out whether they are being consistent. There is a more fundamental issue in this regard. The Oireachtas decides to commit these decisions to the judges and courts because an element of discretion has to come into the decision made. This is the great difficulty in that we want consistency. We want...

Seanad: Civil Liability and Courts Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (8 Jul 2004)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Bill was initiated in Seanad Éireann and was the subject of a number of amendments. Amendments were then made in the other House, some of which were based on discussions that had taken place in this House. It was a matter of casting those discussions into an appropriate formula that would serve as an amendment. The part of the Bill on which most public attention has focused is Part 2,...

Seanad: Civil Liability and Courts Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (8 Jul 2004)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: It was a concern of the public and I reassure people that the reduction from three years to two is the only change to this legislation. When it comes to law, I can understand that the public can get lost in a fog of technicalities very easily. I thank the Senators.

Health Services: Motion. (12 Oct 2004)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: It is the same room.

Health Services: Motion. (12 Oct 2004)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "commends the Government for the unprecedented increase in the level of investment in the health service since 1997 and for its comprehensive reform programme, supports the early implementation of reform measures, notes the progress that is being made already in implementing the health strategy,...

Health Services: Motion. (12 Oct 2004)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Some of the thinking from the Independent Deputies is resonant of the type of thinking that informed public administration in the USSR. As the Deputies are aware, the USSR was administered under a system whereby block grants were endlessly thrown at State services in the hope that they would work.

Health Services: Motion. (12 Oct 2004)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: After decades of corruption, inefficiency, official manipulation and control by vested interests, the system entirely collapsed. The warm public response to the appointment of the Tánaiste as Minister for Health and Children is a reflection of the public's recognition that the entirety of the problem in the health service is not exclusively to do with the allocation of money, as some...

Health Services: Motion. (12 Oct 2004)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: It was also bound up with a considerable number of vested interests that have clung barnacle-like to this rock down the years. I welcome Deputy Ó Caoláin's intervention in the respect that he offered support to the Government in the difficult negotiations we must embark on with the senior branch of the medical profession. On the issue of Monaghan Hospital, I assure the Deputy that the...

Health Services: Motion. (12 Oct 2004)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: We must fund these facilities also. The Deputy made his political claim to fame urging the citizens of his native town to not pay for the rubbish that must be collected.

Health Services: Motion. (12 Oct 2004)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: One must pay for the goods in order to have them produced. The facilities also include: increased capacity in intensive care, coronary care and high dependency units at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, University College Hospital Galway and Naas General Hospital; a new day ward and day surgical centre at St. James's Hospital Dublin; new orthopaedic services, trauma and elective, in Galway...

Health Services: Motion. (12 Oct 2004)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: ——a new maternity suite at Letterkenny General Hospital and a new medical assessment unit at Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar.

Health Services: Motion. (12 Oct 2004)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: These new units include provision for more than 200 additional beds between inpatient and day places——

Health Services: Motion. (12 Oct 2004)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: ——and when fully operational it is estimated that the new units will increase inpatient and day case activity by up to 40,000 patients in a full year.