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Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Dec 2007)

Geraldine Feeney: Sometimes when we speak of the national children's hospital we forget that it is not a hospital for Dublin, Kildare and Wicklow, but a national children's hospital. People from as far away as where I live in the north west in Sligo, and those a further 150 miles north on the Inisowen Peninsula, will come down to it. Once we start coming into Dublin, we do not mind whether we are on the...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Dec 2007)

Geraldine Feeney: As somebody who sat on the Medical Council for five years representing the public interest the Bill, as I stated on Second Stage, is 30 years in gestation. When I joined the Medical Council in 1999, people were clamouring for a new Bill. The then Act was so antiquated it was severely restrictive. The amending Bill was not rushed through the House. There was plenty of discussion. I...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Motion for Earlier Signature (20 Dec 2007)

Geraldine Feeney: I move: That pursuant to subsection 2° of section 2 of Article 25 of the Constitution, Seanad Éireann concurs with the Government in a request to the President to sign the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007 on a date which is earlier than the fifth day after the date on which the Bill shall have been presented to her."

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Motion for Earlier Signature (20 Dec 2007)

Geraldine Feeney: At 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 30 January 2008.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: I congratulate Deputy John Moloney on the excellent job he did yesterday chairing the meeting between the HSE and the IPU.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: I am coming to Order of Business. I congratulate the Deputy because the meeting was volatile, to put it very mildly. There was a large attendance and half the people there had to be accommodated in the audio-visual room.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: I am coming to my point. Half of the people were in the audio-visual room watching the meeting. Although it was scheduled to be two hours long, it lasted for five hours.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: We adjourned until 10.30 a.m. this morning, when we resumed for an hour and a half.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: It is.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: It is relevant to the amendment down to the Order of Business.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: When Members on the Opposition side raised at the meeting yesterday——

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: ——nobody on this side laughed or ridiculed. I am coming to the point I am going to make.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: We met this morning for an hour and half and came very close to agreeing an all-party motion. We are meeting again tomorrow morning to put the finishing touches to that.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: Meanwhile the Chairman of the committee has gone to the HSE as the leader of the Fine Gael Senators rightly knows and we are all meeting tomorrow morning. The Fine Gael leader also knows that the IPU is meeting the Minister tomorrow. It is disingenuous of her group to put down an amendment asking for the Minister to come to the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: We already know that a committee of these Houses——

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: I am informing my leader of what has gone on so that he can reply to Senator Fitzgerald. If this is not the arena in which to do so I do not know what is. A great deal has happened since the issue was raised here last week. It is wrong of Fine Gael to come in and take the high moral ground on this.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: Fine Gael was accused this morning at the committee meeting of trying to politicise the issue. The IPU said it does not want Fine Gael politicising it and dividing the committee.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: The Senator should not refer to a person who is not a Member of the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: I join with Senator Fitzgerald in congratulating Trinity College on the excellent work done in awarding certificates to those with intellectual disability. Perhaps we should call on all third level institutions to follow suit. Institutes of technology could do work with people who are vulnerable and who may enjoy this after second level education finishes. Last week I raised the impasse...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, to the House. I support the call made by Senator Prendergast for a debate on adolescent psychiatry, taking in all aspects of eating disorders. This group does not have a strong lobby and is made up of vulnerable people. Sometimes they deal with issues of life and death, issues I would like to discuss. I have no...