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Seanad: Home Help Service: Motion. (19 Oct 2005)

Maurice Cummins: Obviously it did. Perhaps for many of the consultants involved in PPARS and other projects——

Seanad: Home Help Service: Motion. (19 Oct 2005)

Maurice Cummins: ——it was payback time for them, and perhaps there was a lot more to do in that area. We have witnessed cutbacks in home help hours. When one hears of the work home helps do, and Senator Glynn outlined that work, one realises they are the unsung heroes in the health service. If one talks to any family member with elderly parents who want to live at home, one hears that those families need...

Seanad: Home Help Service: Motion. (19 Oct 2005)

Maurice Cummins: What we are seeing is Government by committee and by consultants. We hear all the pious words about the Government's aspirations and we cannot disagree with them, but when the people examine its practice they realise how false those promises are and how false the Government has been in regard to the care of the elderly. There can be no question about that. The delay in the repayment of...

Seanad: Home Help Service: Motion. (19 Oct 2005)

Maurice Cummins: That is not true.

Seanad: Home Help Service: Motion. (19 Oct 2005)

Maurice Cummins: It could not have been £1 then, as the Senator argued earlier.

Seanad: Salmon Fisheries Report: Statements (Resumed). (25 Oct 2005)

Maurice Cummins: I welcome the report of the joint committee and the submissions made to it. I have listened with interest to the major part of this debate and the wide divergence of opinions expressed as to how we can tackle the problem. A number of weeks ago a deputation came to my clinic in Lismore representing angling, hotel and tourism interests in the area. The group made a professional presentation and...

Seanad: Suicide Prevention Strategy: Statements. (26 Oct 2005)

Maurice Cummins: I wish to share time with Senator Norris.

Seanad: Suicide Prevention Strategy: Statements. (26 Oct 2005)

Maurice Cummins: The last time the Seanad discussed suicide was in May this year but it is fitting that we again debate it in the context of Reach Out — A National Strategy for Action on Suicide Prevention 2005-2014. That we are debating the issue is important. For too long, people, including politicians, were wary and shied away from discussing suicide. It is refreshing that there is now more openness and...

Seanad: Prisons Bill 2005: Second Stage. (27 Oct 2005)

Maurice Cummins: The Minister is clutching at straws.

Seanad: Prisons Bill 2005: Second Stage. (27 Oct 2005)

Maurice Cummins: I welcome the Minister after his marathon here last night. There will be no objection from this side of the House to the provision of a modern and humane prison service. Many of our prisons urgently require demolition, which will happen in the case of Mountjoy. I share the Minister's views on drug free prisons. However, there must be proper rehabilitation and modern medical facilities in the...

Seanad: Prisons Bill 2005: Second Stage. (27 Oct 2005)

Maurice Cummins: He has also rejected a call for an investigation of the matter to be carried out by the Comptroller and Auditor General. Of what is he afraid? If he is so doggedly pursuing this and making statements like he did today, he should have nothing to fear from an investigation carried out by the Comptroller and Auditor General. We welcome the closure of Mountjoy because the conditions there are...

Seanad: Prisons Bill 2005: Second Stage. (27 Oct 2005)

Maurice Cummins: That is a change.

Seanad: Prisons Bill 2005: Second Stage. (27 Oct 2005)

Maurice Cummins: I am glad the Senator has changed his views in that regard.

Seanad: Prisons Bill 2005: Second Stage. (27 Oct 2005)

Maurice Cummins: The Senator's party is not very consistent on it.

Seanad: Prisons Bill 2005: Second Stage. (27 Oct 2005)

Maurice Cummins: I cannot see the legal profession travelling in vans.

Seanad: Prisons Bill 2005: Second Stage. (27 Oct 2005)

Maurice Cummins: He did not achieve it in six years.

Seanad: Prisons Bill 2005: Second Stage. (27 Oct 2005)

Maurice Cummins: That is another example of bad planning.

Seanad: Waste Management. (27 Oct 2005)

Maurice Cummins: I thank the Minister of State for attending the House. The Irish Farm Films Producer Group, IFFPG, collected over 12,500 tonnes of plastic farm film from farmers in the first eight months of 2004. There is a great demand from farmers for these collections but the scheme has ceased until next year due to insufficient funding. The volume of plastic film collected last year represented an...

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Maurice Cummins: There were none.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Maurice Cummins: Value for money in respect of tribunals of inquiry was another aspiration of Government. The Government has decided the reduction of fees to lawyers at tribunals will be postponed until June next year. We are asked to believe €39 billion will be spent over the next ten years yet a promise made by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform on numerous occasions cannot be honoured. He...