Results 9,721-9,740 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: Does the Senator mean appointed to the Medical Council?
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: They can be recruited onto the committees by the society.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: I will reflect on the Senator's amendment No. 18 and introduce a Government amendment to specify all those points.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: We have been informed by the Senator's very good amendment and we just need to clear it legally.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: There is a member in the other House and he is a Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: He or she would be required to vacate the position.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: We will probably come back with an amendment on that issue.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: They have great representation here.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: It is the same thing. I will come back on the issue.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: Yes.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: I am a strong fan of encouraging women to take up decision-making positions. If this was a council onto which the Minister was appointing all the members, I would probably accept the amendment. However, the members of the society will elect nine persons and it would be very prescriptive to tell them that four of them should be women. There are six Senators in this House representing the...
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: If we were to say to the universities that 40% of their candidates for seats in the Seanad had to be women, I do not know which of the male Senators here would have to give way. Half of the Dáil Deputies in my party are female. I attend many health care conferences and there has been a complete transformation from my last job when I would look across the room to see if any woman was in the...
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: Much of it has to do with the points system. We all acknowledge that women are brighter than men.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: We must be pragmatic and sensible. The argument was made when I brought forward the HIQA Bill that 70% of the members of the board would end up being female by virtue of the positions they held. Being over-prescriptive is not the way to go. I was in Norway last week. Eight of the 17 Ministers are female owing to the quota system. Therefore, a woman in the Norwegian Parliament has a great...
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: Senator Henry is correct. During some of the inquiries under company law, great criticism was also levelled when members of the Central Bank did not report to Revenue. The confidentiality clause will apply to everyone. As stated in the section, however, it will not prohibit the making of reports to Ministers or whatever body to which the council might agree to make such a report....
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: There are different situations. I am not providing in the legislation or in the Medical Practitioners Bill that there will be a representative of the Minister on the council. I gave consideration to that matter but ruled it out because, as is the case with other bodies, he or she would be there to represent the Minister. In my previous job the Minister had representatives on different...
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: If I ever become Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, I would be delighted to introduce such legislation.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: In fairness, the Bar Council has opted, on a voluntary basis, for a lay majority.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: My sources, of which I have a few, inform me that the council has opted for a lay majority.
- Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)
Mary Harney: I do. I also have a few in the pharmacy profession, other than Senator Minihan.