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Seanad: Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (1 Dec 2011)

Susan O'Keeffe: There is something in the Kerry water, evidently.

Seanad: Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (1 Dec 2011)

Susan O'Keeffe: Galway could be a hub with spokes in smaller towns such as Sligo, Castlebar or Ballina.

Seanad: Budget 2012: Statements (6 Dec 2011)

Susan O'Keeffe: How dare the Senator wish us luck.

Seanad: Budget 2012: Statements (6 Dec 2011)

Susan O'Keeffe: I wish to share my time with Senator Bacik.

Seanad: Budget 2012: Statements (6 Dec 2011)

Susan O'Keeffe: How long have we spent on this? I do not understand. We wish to share the time. I will not exceed it.

Seanad: Budget 2012: Statements (6 Dec 2011)

Susan O'Keeffe: As agriculture spokesperson, I welcome what is a creative proposal in this budget that reflects the desires among the farming community and those in agriculture to support younger farmers. Many criticisms have been expressed in the House of many aspects of the budget and one I have observed is that there is nothing creative in this budget but one knows that is not the case when one sits down...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Susan O'Keeffe: I ask the Leader for a debate in the new year on moneylending. Coupled with it are organisations and companies offering debt solutions. People are under pressure, not just because of the times we are in but because Christmas is upon us. They are incredibly vulnerable when they hear advertisements on the radio promising that one should not worry if one has debts of €10,000 because one can...

Seanad: Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2011)

Susan O'Keeffe: Will Senator Leyden please withdraw that statement?

Seanad: Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2011)

Susan O'Keeffe: The statement that we had to have one of our own in the Áras.

Seanad: Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2011)

Susan O'Keeffe: I beg your pardon, Senator Leyden. The people voted for President Higgins. I ask the Senator to withdraw that statement.

Seanad: Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2011)

Susan O'Keeffe: It is the inference made by the Senator that somehow we had to have one of our own and kept Mr. Seán Gallagher out of the Áras.

Seanad: Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2011)

Susan O'Keeffe: I am grateful for that.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Susan O'Keeffe: I echo the calls for an improvement in the way Members behave in this House. At a time when we constantly talk about how we look to the world, we are not showing ourselves up in a good light. I ask the Leader not to organise a debate on the future of the Seanad in Seanad time. If we are to have a debate on the future of the Seanad, we should not take up the time of this House to do so and...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Susan O'Keeffe: Senator MacSharry appears to have entirely forgotten-----

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Susan O'Keeffe: Yes. The question I have asked is that the Leader does not organise a debate on the future of the Seanad. Senator MacSharry appears to have forgotten that the Government of which he was a party member took cancer services away from Sligo.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)

Susan O'Keeffe: I wish to comment on the case in County Mayo last week in which a man who had abused his daughters was jailed for life. One could not but concur that it was one of the most violent cases about which we had read in recent times. The hard part is that it happened in our times because the children were abused between 1986 and 2000. This case does not belong in the dim and distant past when no...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Susan O'Keeffe: I thank the Minister for coming to the House. I also echo the words of my fellow Senators in commending the Minister's capacity to keep the cuts to a minimum, albeit that, as she and others have noted, no one wants to cut. In this regard, she was the Minister who was to be damned in this budget because whatever she did and wherever she went to find the money, there would be a queue of...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2011)

Susan O'Keeffe: I echo Senator Bacik's comments about the people of Liège, who are obviously struggling to cope with the events of yesterday and the deaths of some of their citizens. I ask the Leader if the Minister for Health might consider an idea from the UK — the Good Care Guide, which is an online service to encourage users and their families to rate care homes for the elderly. However, it is not...

Seanad: Health Services (14 Dec 2011)

Susan O'Keeffe: I thank the Minister for coming before the House. This matter relates to St. John's Hospital, Sligo, which has a fine tradition of providing care, particularly for those who are highly dependent. I was a patient at the hospital which is an old facility. When officials from the Health Information and Quality Authority visited it recently, the Cairde Ward had to be closed. It had 35 to 36...

Seanad: Health Services (14 Dec 2011)

Susan O'Keeffe: The staff, the patients and the families view the standards as being vitally important, and people welcomed the HIQA intervention at that point. I am still unclear, however, because "considering its options" might also mean that Cairde Ward could remain shut. I am no clearer as to whether the refurbishment will start or whether the commitment has been made.