Results 821-840 of 1,966 for speaker:Mary Henry

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: I thought the main objective we were trying to achieve was to set up registers for the protection of the public. Of course I am sympathetic about people and their livelihoods but the protection of the public is important. I have a vested interest in this area. As a medical practitioner, I must be sure of the qualifications of those to whom I refer people. Under the legislation we are allowing...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: Senator Ryan has raised a most important issue concerning an area in which the general public is at its most vulnerable. The Irish Council for Psychotherapists has been in contact with me to say that it has standards in place and is linked to the European Psychotherapy Association. The council has signed up to the EPA's standards and would like to be included within the terms of the Bill....

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: I very much support Senator Ryan's sentiments. As Senator Glynn and the Minister of State will be well aware, spoken therapies have become so much more common in psychiatry than psychotherapeutic drugs that we must try to tackle the issue. More people are consulting such professionals and we will need to make the decision if they cannot do so among themselves. As Senator Feeney will be very...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: I move amendment No. 5: In page 9, subsection (3)(b), line 32, to delete "or" and substitute "and". This is a very simple amendment, which is unlikely to need 25 minutes' debate. One should make a diagnosis of a condition, treat it and care for the person as opposed to the current wording which is "the diagnosis, treatment or care of those who are injured, sick, disabled or infirm".

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: I take Senator Ryan's point but Senator Maurice Hayes is right. There is much more team work now in hospitals. As for general practitioners feeling their jobs are being taken, there is hardly a general practitioner in the State who is not ready to collapse. There is no GP in Mulhuddart to treat 10,000 people and there is barely one in Ballyfermot. The people of Mulhuddart will be ecstatic, as...

Seanad: Health Services: Motion. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: I agree with the part of the Government amendment that states there has been substantial investment in the health service. The only issue which bothers many of us involved in the sector is the question of where this money has gone because there are terrible deficiencies in the sector. Senator Browne mentioned that Dr. Declan Keane, the master of Holles Street Hospital, has warned there would...

Seanad: Health Services: Motion. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: Is it open?

Seanad: Health Services: Motion. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: I have been told about places being open previously, but when I checked they were not open. I will check this one.

Seanad: Health Services: Motion. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: That is better because I heard of a radiotherapy unit that was supposed to be open, but on checking I found it was not.

Seanad: Health Services: Motion. (17 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: We should take careful note of two developments. We pay agency fees to recruit nurses abroad and we are not looked on kindly in the developing world for taking their best trained and most intelligent people. We should put a stop to that. There is also another development we need to carefully monitor. The other day a friend of mine, who was on a panel to recruit an orthopaedic surgeon in a...

Seanad: Order of Business. (18 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: On Tuesday, I attended an excellent seminar in Dublin Castle, which was organised in the main by Senator White, on post-release republican and loyalist prisoners. There are 25,000 such ex-prisoners many of whom have had very unsatisfactory lives in the context of employment since being released. I call for a debate on the matter in which discussion is extended to address the facilities in...

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: It was disclosed in the press last week that not all genetic tests carried out in a private institution in Galway were accurate. Although it is attached to the university, this is a private institution. It has carried out work for ten years because the national genetics institution in Dublin is flooded with work and is inadequately resourced and staffed. However, the institution in Galway...

Seanad: Book of Estimates 2005: Statements. (24 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: I thank Senator O'Toole for being so generous in sharing time. I wish to address the issue of overseas aid. As Deputy O'Donnell so eloquently put it in today's newspapers, our commitment to providing such aid is how we are known abroad. This issue is extremely important for the countries to which we have been providing assistance. I refer, in particular, to the priority countries in Africa,...

Seanad: Road Network: Motion. (24 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: There is a lovely little village in County Cork called Glanworth. I have visited my brother's house there but have never had time to walk around the village until recently. It is located on the River Funcheon, across which there is a beautiful 11 arch bridge, which is one of Europe's oldest and longest. The bridge has been treated in an extraordinary manner for many years. It was used by very...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (25 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: Senator Norris is right to raise the issue of the Gulfstream jet again. When I first raised this issue at the end of the debate on the transfer of sentenced persons Bill, the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy McDowell, said that if any people were being transferred to other countries through Shannon Airport on that jet, they had the protection of the Constitution. This is...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage (Resumed). (25 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: This section relates to the establishment of the registration boards, which will be extremely important. I am sure Members and the Minister of State will want to ensure that these boards operate in line with their international counterparts and that they will not cover people for whom provision is not made internationally. I was concerned on the previous occasion when the Minister of State...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage (Resumed). (25 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: There is great sense in Senator Browne's amendments as there is in my own. It can be presumed that new people will be coming on to the register every year as they qualify and those who have died will no longer appear. My amendment proposes an update on a yearly basis. I support Senator Browne's amendment that the register be available for inspection by members of the public. I prefer my own...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage (Resumed). (25 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: The Minister of State is such a nice man so I will not say that is a likely story or something like that. I can see his point. Could the phrase "at least yearly" not be included? I ask the Minister of State to consider my proposal. Registers exist which are left saecula saeculorum and I know some of them. I am not be happy with the looseness of this section of the Bill. Senator Browne's...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage (Resumed). (25 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: The Minister of State is correct, they are statutory and that is the reason I wish this to be statutory. I have in mind the electoral rolls for the university seats. The Minister of State's suggestion of an annual basis would be perfect.

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage (Resumed). (25 Nov 2004)

Mary Henry: That is a good point and I ask the Minister of State to consider the matter.